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Chilling moment ‘racist gunman’ stumbles into hair salon after attack that left three dead and sparked riots in Paris
A SUSPECTED gunman stumbled into a hair salon still brandishing a weapon after three people were shot dead, chilling footage appears to show.
William M, 69, gunned down a woman and two men and injured at least three others in a horror attack in Paris, authorities say.
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The retired train driver, who is suspected far-right extremist, had been released on bail just days earlier for attacking two migrants with a sabre-type sword.
Riots erupted in the French capital on Friday after three people, all understood to be Kurdish activists, were shot dead.
Police rushed to the scene to the 10th arrondissement in the north of Paris just after midday (11am GMT) following reports that at least eight gunshots had been heard.
A haunting clip has now emerged appearing to show the alleged killer entering a barber clutching a gun after the attack.
CCTV footage shows customers and staff running away from the salon floor just moments before the man walked in.
He then appears to shoot in the direction of those hiding.
A scuffle then seems to break out as the workers and customers detain and disarm the suspected gunman.
One of the men can be seen carrying the gun away while another starts making calls.
The suspected attacker was arrested before being taken to hospital with facial injuries.
The clothing worn by the man in the clip matches the description of the outfit worn by the gunman arrested.
Investigators are considering a possible racist motive for the shooting as anti-terror police in France probe the incident.
The French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that the suspect “obviously wanted to target foreigners”.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the country’s Kurds were the target of a “heinous” attack.
He tweeted: “Thoughts for the victims, those who are fighting to survive, to their families and loved ones.”
Anger erupted following the shooting as rioters clashed with police, started fires and formed barricades.
Riot cops unleashed tear gas while pictures showed an injured protester being carried to safety by the crowd and hurt police officers being pulled away by colleagues.
The shooting took place close to a Kurdish cultural centre on Rue d’Enghien in the 10th Arrondissement of the French capital.
It is just minutes from Gare du Nord station, where millions of Brits arrive every year on the Eurostar from Kings Cross.
The district of northern Paris has a large Kurdish population.
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At least three people were killed in the shooting[/caption]
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Gunman shot two youngsters with air rifle after reaching boiling point over lads’ playing football
A GUNMAN opened fire with an airgun at a group of youths after they began playing football outside his home.
Samuel Field, 29, reached boiling point after being plagued by anti-social behaviour near his home in South Shields, Tyneside.
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Samuel Field, 29, reached boiling point after being plagued by anti-social behaviour near his home[/caption]
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He shot two youths with the air gun, including a 15-year-old boy[/caption]
Field, now of County Durham, and neighbours had made repeated reports to police about the behaviour.
But on the evening of April 7, Field’s partner made another call to officers after a group of 10 to 15 teenagers began playing football in the lanes around their home.
The woman began filming the youths outside her window in an attempt to gather evidence for the police, reports Chronicle Live.
Kevin Wardlaw, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court: “They realised she was making a recording of them playing football and somebody in the group became abusive to the woman at the window.
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“She told them, in no uncertain terms, to get away and said she was recording what was going on.”
Field then went outside and confronted the group and took the football from a 15-year-old boy before threatening to hit the youths.
Mr Wardlaw said: “The defendant went back in the house and what happened next is captured on a short video clip which shows the defendant come to the window in possession of an air rifle, which he fired towards the youths.”
Field’s shots with the airgun hit the 15-year-old in the head, while another shot struck a girl on the inner thigh.
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Neither youth was seriously injured, and the group ran away from the gunman.
The boy said in a victim statement: “As soon as I saw him with a gun I knew he was going to do it. He didn’t have a right to do it.
“I probably won’t go back there now. I don’t want this to happen again, anything could happen.”
Field told police in an interview that while he did fire the gun, he did not intend to hit them and instead meant to just scare them off.
The 29-year-old, who said he owns a number of air weapons but has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and common assault.
Vic Laffey, defending, said: “He is someone who is a decent man who reached the end of his tether and did something he accepts was entirely inappropriate.
“He and other people in the vicinity had suffered a significant amount of abuse, damage to property and the like, from youths in the area.
“He says for about 12 months, sometimes up to ten times a week, he had been reporting this.
“When, on this particular evening some abuse was directed at his girlfriend he reached the end of his tether and did something extremely foolish, which thankfully didn’t result in any serious injury.
“At least it brought things to a head. He has left the area altogether.”
Judge Sarah Mallett sentenced Field to 14 months suspended for 21 months with rehabilitation.
He was also ordered to pay £50 to each of the two children he shot along with a fine of £100.
The judge told him: “It was an inappropriate response to a build up of frustration and the anti-social behaviour which impacted on your life.
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“There was no indication the children you hit were responsible for the anti-social behaviour you were complaining about.
“You have demonstrated genuine remorse and have moved and got rid of the air weapons. It’s undoubtedly very serious to fire an imitation firearm at a group of individuals, let alone children.”
Gunman who slaughtered 15 people at his former school ‘inspired by Columbine’
Massive reward offered to catch gunman who killed nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel
A REWARD of £50,000 has been offered to find the gunman who killed Olivia Pratt-Korbel.
Tory peer Lord Ashcroft made the cash pledge as cops continue to hunt for the shooter who gunned down the nine-year-old down at her home in Knotty Ash, Liverpool.
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Lord Ashcroft is offering a £50k for information that leads to the gunman being jailed[/caption]
The youngster was shot when a gunman chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into her home on August 22.
A bullet passed through Olivia’s mum’s wrist before striking the youngster in her body – fatally wounding her.
She was rushed to hospital but declared dead later that night.
Officers have this week been searching at West Derby Golf Club where searches for the two guns used in the attack.
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Cops have arrested nine people in total in connection with her killing.
Lord Ashcroft has now pledged a £50,000 reward through Crimestoppers, of which he is chairman for information that leads to her killer being jailed.
It comes after Olivia’s mum issued a heart-breaking appeal to find her daughter’s killer – telling them “you know you have done wrong”.
With her hand wrapped in a bandage from the night she lost her daughter, Cheryl said: “She was amazing, she loved life. She was my little shadow. She went everywhere with me.
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“She didn’t like school because she had to do work but she loved it because she was with all her friends.
“Everyone that she met they all fell in love with her.
“She left a mark on everyone that she met and she may well have only been nine but she packed a lot in them nine years.
“She never, ever stopped talking. And that is what I miss the most, because I can’t hear her talk.
“I am hoping that they come forward so this doesn’t happen to anybody else.
“You know you have done wrong so you need to own up like I have taught my kids. You do something wrong, you own up to it.”
It comes as Olivia’s classmates receive counselling after returning to school following her death.
Rebecca Wilkinson, headteacher of St Margaret Mary’s Catholic Junior School in Huyton, said: “What has been nice since the children have come back are the memories that they have shared from what they remember of Olivia and, in what has been a sad three weeks, that has been really heartening, to listen to the memories that the children have shared of her.
“That’s brought a lot of happiness really in what is a very tragic situation, listening to those memories.”
The school’s 480 pupils have been offered counselling since returning following the summer holidays.
Mrs Wilkinson said pupils would be allowed to wear pink nail varnish on Thursday, the day of Olivia’s funeral, in memory of the time when the schoolgirl tried to hide her hands from her headteacher to conceal her painted nails.
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Students will not be attending the service, at neighbouring St Margaret Mary’s Church, Mrs Wilkinson said, but prayers will be written in school and an art project of flowers put together in Olivia’s memory.
Anyone with information can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or crimestoppers-uk.org.
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Her mum issued a heart-breaking plea for her killer to be found[/caption]
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