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Paris Prosecutor Opens Terror Probe After Champs Elysee Attack

Paris Prosecutor Opens Terror Probe After Champs Elysee Attack

(Bloomberg) -- Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said his office has opened a terrorist investigation after an assailant killed one police officer and injured two others in the French capital late Thursday.

Investigators are looking for accomplices to the lone attacker, Molins said at the site of the attack on Paris’s Champs Elysees. A female passer by was also grazed by a bullet in the incident, Molins said, adding that he will hold a full press conference Friday.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Deen in Paris at markdeen@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Fergal O'Brien at fobrien@bloomberg.net.