:00:00. > :00:00.motive unclear at the moment as are the sequence of events confusing.
:00:00. > :00:12.Coverage of this unfolding story continues here on BBC News. We have
:00:13. > :00:13.a developing story in Paris where there has been a shooting on the
:00:14. > :00:22.Champs Elysees. This is from a French news agency
:00:23. > :00:27.stating that one police officer has been killed and over the wounded by
:00:28. > :00:31.the shooting in the Champs-Elysees, and we are told by the French
:00:32. > :00:36.interior ministry that an attacker has been killed. Next I can show you
:00:37. > :00:46.live pictures coming into the BBC newsroom. You get an idea of the
:00:47. > :00:55.operation underway in the city. Let's bring in Christian Fraser from
:00:56. > :01:01.the BBC who is in Paris. What have you heard? Funnily enough Ros I
:01:02. > :01:05.started broadcasting with the one hour ago, I saw the police and I
:01:06. > :01:11.knew something was wrong, I did not know where it was but I know there
:01:12. > :01:19.was a commotion. We are broadcasting here, that is Etoile behind us, the
:01:20. > :01:25.traffic is being redirected away from the Champs-Elysees, it's being
:01:26. > :01:31.directed towards Concord and the street is empty, they have pulled
:01:32. > :01:33.back the cordon towards Etoile and the helicopter is basically making a
:01:34. > :01:40.grand circle around the Champs-Elysees. It is going back
:01:41. > :01:49.down towards us. Police cars are still moving around, just after we
:01:50. > :01:53.had spoken to you clearly the message had gone out on the radio
:01:54. > :01:57.that one officer had been shot and they were coming from all
:01:58. > :02:10.directions. It was bedlam. There was one unmarked police car that came
:02:11. > :02:12.tearing up the Grande Armee desperate to get to the
:02:13. > :02:18.Champs-Elysees because they did not know what had happened. The street
:02:19. > :02:27.was full of people as it is on beautiful nights like this, people
:02:28. > :02:32.walking up and down a very busy street, maybe we passed some of the
:02:33. > :02:36.people who came under attack, there is a visible presence of armed
:02:37. > :02:40.police on the Champs-Elysees as always. Before we keep talking,
:02:41. > :02:45.Christian, let me bring in further developments. The Reuters news
:02:46. > :02:50.agency say that three police sources say the shooting in Paris could have
:02:51. > :02:55.been an attempt at an armed robbery. Writers have also put out a tweet
:02:56. > :02:59.from a police source saying it is probably a terrorist attack. Which
:03:00. > :03:04.highlights the fact that we don't know who's responsible, we don't
:03:05. > :03:08.know what has happened yet. And as ever with these situations you have
:03:09. > :03:15.to be careful about what conclusions jump to. The city is on a high state
:03:16. > :03:18.of alert. We are three days from a general election and there are
:03:19. > :03:26.plenty of people in France who would like to disrupt it, so serious is it
:03:27. > :03:30.that the police are bringing in private security guards to help man
:03:31. > :03:35.some polling stations. We are still in a state of emergency in France,
:03:36. > :03:39.it has been extended and they will be on the highest state of alert
:03:40. > :03:42.particularly after what has gone on. You are right to put caution on it.
:03:43. > :03:49.It is a busy street, lots of jewellers shops on that street, it
:03:50. > :03:55.could easily have been an armed robbery as well as it could have
:03:56. > :04:00.been a terror attack. Stay with us peace. We will highlight where the
:04:01. > :04:06.attack took place. If we go in closely you can see the
:04:07. > :04:10.Champs-Elysees is marked. I can see one eyewitnesses quoted as saying
:04:11. > :04:13.that a man got out of a car and began shooting with a Kalashnikov.
:04:14. > :04:18.The BBC can't confirm that at the moment. Let's bring up the
:04:19. > :04:33.newswires, which are coming through. Apparently one shot was fired as the
:04:34. > :04:37.car stopped at a red light. All the latest news reports coming in. Let's
:04:38. > :04:46.listen to a police warning to people on the Champs-Elysees. You have to
:04:47. > :04:56.stay back. Please stay back. Ladies and gentlemen, stay back, please. I
:04:57. > :05:00.mean, look exactly where this attack will have taken place. This is the
:05:01. > :05:07.Champs-Elysees, one of the most famous roads, not just in France, in
:05:08. > :05:10.the world. We are still getting more details on precisely where the
:05:11. > :05:13.attack happened. Let's speak to James Reynolds who is monitoring
:05:14. > :05:20.this story from the BBC newsroom in Paris. What information do you have,
:05:21. > :05:25.James? We are keeping an eye on the French channels. They suggest
:05:26. > :05:29.something similar to what you have said, there was a car, in which
:05:30. > :05:35.there was an attacker, these initial reports say he got out and fired
:05:36. > :05:38.towards the police. There are other questions to be answered, were the
:05:39. > :05:43.others in the car, what's happened to that car, with the police
:05:44. > :05:49.targeted, remember there are lots of police on the Champs-Elysees. Our
:05:50. > :05:54.colleague Christian Fraser has brought these pictures. I was on a
:05:55. > :05:58.side street possibly moments after the shooting happened, my colleagues
:05:59. > :06:01.and I were simply walking towards the Champs-Elysees, we saw a small
:06:02. > :06:05.group of people running towards us, we from the Champs-Elysees, looking
:06:06. > :06:10.panicked, one woman said that had been a man with a gun, we could not
:06:11. > :06:14.get much more information from her. And then we saw the police taking
:06:15. > :06:20.control of the small side road from the Champs-Elysees ordering people
:06:21. > :06:24.to stay inside. This evening all the main residential candidates, all 11
:06:25. > :06:27.of them are taking part in a big television event. If that's
:06:28. > :06:35.continuing? Have they commented on this? They have been commenting on
:06:36. > :06:40.Twitter. I haven't followed the progress of the debate, I did manage
:06:41. > :06:43.to watch the first three or four segments including one where Marine
:06:44. > :06:47.Le Pen talked about the issue of what she called terrorism. Clearly
:06:48. > :06:52.this news has dominated and the candidates have wanted to express
:06:53. > :07:02.themselves and get their points of view out on Twitter. If you are just
:07:03. > :07:06.tuning in, that has been a shooting on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. We
:07:07. > :07:11.don't know the circumstances, we don't know the motivation. We have
:07:12. > :07:17.had contradictory claims on that. We are best not going down the road of
:07:18. > :07:23.speculation. What we do know is that it has happened on the
:07:24. > :07:30.Champs-Elysees. Confirmation from the French interior ministry, they
:07:31. > :07:42.say that police officers were deliberately targeted. Let me bring
:07:43. > :07:45.up another piece of information, police sources say that two
:07:46. > :07:50.attackers were involved and one was killed. I was just speaking to my
:07:51. > :08:00.colleague about that important TV debate in France, we have heard that
:08:01. > :08:03.has been suspended. Each presidential candidate was going to
:08:04. > :08:08.be quizzed in front of a sizeable audience across the country but that
:08:09. > :08:15.will not be continuing as normal because of what is happening in
:08:16. > :08:20.Paris. The police, as often happens in these emergency situations, are
:08:21. > :08:26.using social media to communicate, one tweet recommends that you avoid
:08:27. > :08:30.the area of the Champs-Elysees and as James and Christian have
:08:31. > :08:36.explained they had to move, because of the police coming in again,
:08:37. > :08:38.police intervention under Way, avoid the sector, follow the instructions
:08:39. > :08:54.of the police forces. Let's speak to Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, a
:08:55. > :09:01.journalist who often joins us here. You don't live far away, what have
:09:02. > :09:05.you heard? I heard it on my computer before I looked outside but I was
:09:06. > :09:09.wondering why helicopters were in the sky because they are flying over
:09:10. > :09:14.Paris and normally that's forbidden. I live at the corner of two streets,
:09:15. > :09:21.one block off the Champs-Elysees, and I could see police cars in my
:09:22. > :09:25.street, and it was very obvious that it was to get on the street to go to
:09:26. > :09:31.the Champs-Elysees, so the whole thing was being cordoned off. And
:09:32. > :09:40.then of course I got the news by television and Twitter. And they
:09:41. > :09:43.talked about and attack, announced by the interior minister who said
:09:44. > :09:46.that there had been a deliberate attack against a French police
:09:47. > :09:53.officer and that the assailants were both dead. What I did not know, and
:09:54. > :09:57.had only recently, is that one of the policeman is also dead. This
:09:58. > :10:01.happened in a segment of the Champs-Elysees we have many
:10:02. > :10:07.shoppers, many tourists, many restaurants, and that would have
:10:08. > :10:10.been a place where at any time of the evening, especially the early
:10:11. > :10:16.evening, you would have close to 100,000 people between the top on
:10:17. > :10:20.the bottom of the street so potentially a place where you could
:10:21. > :10:24.have a disaster. I was going to ask you, even at this time of the
:10:25. > :10:30.evening it would be a busy place. Hugely busy. It's the time when it
:10:31. > :10:34.is most busy in the day. Early evening, people are about to go and
:10:35. > :10:38.see movies at the second show or they are just coming out of movies
:10:39. > :10:43.and there are lots of restaurants and many shops and open in the
:10:44. > :10:49.evening. That would be more of an incentive. If you think of something
:10:50. > :10:54.that would be a combination of Leicester Square and Oxford Street
:10:55. > :10:57.in London, that is what it is. Anne-Elisabeth, can you give us an
:10:58. > :11:03.idea of the scale of the operation that is underway at the moment? The
:11:04. > :11:07.incident itself didn't involve many people but now you've got police and
:11:08. > :11:16.Stanley Avenue, police in the side street and helicopters overhead. --
:11:17. > :11:23.you've got police along the Avenue. Every president, every mayor in
:11:24. > :11:27.Paris is aware that everyone in world knows about this Avenue so it
:11:28. > :11:32.is the place that is the most protected, it has Brazilians and
:11:33. > :11:35.people from outside the city and tourists, and weekends you have one
:11:36. > :11:41.third of a million people there every day. And you have the Ely is a
:11:42. > :11:46.palace which is just behind a row of trees just up the bottom of the
:11:47. > :11:51.Avenue, so that's many reasons for the place to be protected.
:11:52. > :11:55.Anne-Elisabeth, thank you very much, for the moment. We appreciate your
:11:56. > :12:00.help in covering this story. A couple of other things to share with
:12:01. > :12:04.you. A French Interior Ministry spokesperson said that the motives
:12:05. > :12:08.for the shooting are unknown. Bear in mind that message from the French
:12:09. > :12:13.interior ministry when I show you this wire that has come in from
:12:14. > :12:18.Reuters, President Trump has offered his condolences after the killing of
:12:19. > :12:22.a police officer, saying it looks like another terrorist act. Let's
:12:23. > :12:26.bring in Christian Fraser of the BBC in the Champs-Elysees. Just to
:12:27. > :12:35.reiterate, we don't know how to describe this at the moment, do we?
:12:36. > :12:40.No, we don't. I did see mobile phone footage from the Champs-Elysees,
:12:41. > :12:44.somebody running this we showed me and he showed me shots on the mobile
:12:45. > :12:51.phone because he had recorded them, I could not hear the sound because
:12:52. > :12:55.of the traffic that people were running in all directions, and as
:12:56. > :12:59.Anne-Elisabeth has just described, the police were on the scene very
:13:00. > :13:02.quickly. I can see just at the top of the Champs-Elysees armed police
:13:03. > :13:07.on both sides of the road. Hotels are just down that side of the
:13:08. > :13:15.Champs-Elysees is presumably people are being kept indoors. They are
:13:16. > :13:19.still making sure that there is no one out there. We see the helicopter
:13:20. > :13:22.going round the Champs-Elysees, just moments ago they turned the
:13:23. > :13:26.floodlight on the helicopter and they were pointing it down onto an
:13:27. > :13:37.area to the right-hand side of the Champs around the area of the George
:13:38. > :13:40.V Metro station. Police down the side streets, not all the side
:13:41. > :13:44.streets but keeping a wary eye on what is going on in this part of
:13:45. > :13:54.town. It is much quieter than it would normally be. It would be quite
:13:55. > :14:00.busy in this area, eight o'clock local time, and now you can only see
:14:01. > :14:05.a smattering of traffic which is normally very busy at this time is
:14:06. > :14:10.right. Please stay with us. Some other elements, CBS News has quoted
:14:11. > :14:14.President Trump saying this looks like another terrorist attack but
:14:15. > :14:25.we've had no confirmation from the authorities that it is.
:14:26. > :14:30.A counterterrorism office has opened an investigation but it is an
:14:31. > :14:36.investigation and no more, this is particularly relevant to those of
:14:37. > :14:39.you watching on the BBC News Channel, the British Embassy is in
:14:40. > :14:42.contact with local authorities and is seeking further information
:14:43. > :14:48.following the reports of this shooting incident in Paris.
:14:49. > :14:53.Christian, to come back to you, can you give us an idea for the viewers
:14:54. > :14:57.who are not watching about an hour ago of the sudden influx of
:14:58. > :15:07.emergency vehicles? It was very quick. We work broadcasting at about
:15:08. > :15:12.ten to eight. Suddenly from all directions police cars were coming
:15:13. > :15:17.towards us, unmarked police cars as well. The most dramatic moment at
:15:18. > :15:21.the foot of where we are broadcasting is that there's a sort
:15:22. > :15:24.of traffic light and a pedestrian crossing and a pedestrian almost got
:15:25. > :15:28.hit by a policeman who was driving as quickly as he could to get to the
:15:29. > :15:34.scene. Clearly a message had gone out on the radio that they needed to
:15:35. > :15:41.respond, we have seen the helicopter overhead for about the past hour,
:15:42. > :15:49.and very quickly as well. And also at the underpass. It is an area that
:15:50. > :15:54.people use to get to the other side of the Champs-Elysees. The policeman
:15:55. > :15:58.I spoke to, I said, what is going on and he didn't want to talk at all,
:15:59. > :16:03.you was very jumpy so obviously he knew something serious had happened
:16:04. > :16:08.to one of his colleagues. We were talking about terrorism as we would
:16:09. > :16:14.do in the context of like this. We were whether former Europe minister
:16:15. > :16:19.tonight. He came to do an interview with us for 100 Days. I knew his
:16:20. > :16:21.background, he was on the intelligence committee that wrote
:16:22. > :16:25.the intelligence legislation and I asked if he thought it might affect
:16:26. > :16:29.things this weekend. He said it certainly in the minds of some
:16:30. > :16:32.voters the terror threat is there and it might encourage some people
:16:33. > :16:39.to vote from Marine Le Pen but in the context of our question I am
:16:40. > :16:42.always intrigued about how severe the terror threat is. He said that
:16:43. > :16:49.from what he had seen there was something like 15,000 people in
:16:50. > :16:53.France that the security services need to watch. Not saying that they
:16:54. > :16:57.all severe threats but 15,000 people at any one time that have to be
:16:58. > :17:02.watched. And he said, whatever happens the other side of this
:17:03. > :17:06.election we need to step up our security and resources we have of
:17:07. > :17:10.the intelligence agencies so that they can keep track of these people.
:17:11. > :17:14.Christian, thank you, we will come back to you within the hour on
:17:15. > :17:20.Outside Source. If you are just joining us, there has been a
:17:21. > :17:23.shooting on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, one police officer has been
:17:24. > :17:26.killed, we don't know the motivation behind this incident. The reaction
:17:27. > :17:31.from Marine Le Pen, leader of the National front in France, one of the
:17:32. > :17:37.four main candidates to be the next president, she says in motion and
:17:38. > :17:44.solidarity for our security forces, again being targeted. In the most
:17:45. > :17:47.famous road in Paris, the Champs-Elysees, there is the Arc de
:17:48. > :17:52.Triomphe which we saw just behind Christian as he was talking to us,
:17:53. > :17:57.it runs away from that. The newswires are giving updates all the
:17:58. > :18:01.time on this story. APR says one police officer has been killed and
:18:02. > :18:09.another injured, and one attacker has been shot dead, according to the
:18:10. > :18:16.police. This is really important. The French interior minister says it
:18:17. > :18:21.is too early to say what the motive is for this attack. We are busy
:18:22. > :18:26.working on this story in the BBC newsroom in London, James Reynolds
:18:27. > :18:32.is in Paris, what else can you tell us, James? To recap what you have
:18:33. > :18:37.just said, Ros. Metro stations along the Champs-Elysees have been closed,
:18:38. > :18:41.entirely understandable, given the police presence on the
:18:42. > :18:44.Champs-Elysees. Like Christian Fraser we have heard the police
:18:45. > :18:48.helicopters overhead. We know that the police are in control of the
:18:49. > :18:52.roads next to the Champs-Elysees and to reiterate what Christian said,
:18:53. > :18:59.this still feels like a live operation. They need to identify who
:19:00. > :19:10.the attacker was. Was he known to the police, was involved in other
:19:11. > :19:15.activities? Were there any accomplices, this activity will have
:19:16. > :19:18.to go quickly before they can reassure people that this live
:19:19. > :19:23.operation is over. Would it have been normal for police officers to
:19:24. > :19:27.be on the Champs-Elysees on a regular evening? On some regular
:19:28. > :19:31.evenings, yes, given the context of the last few years, if you go down
:19:32. > :19:36.the Champs-Elysees at any point in the last few years you might well
:19:37. > :19:39.have seen police officers and possibly soldiers as well, this
:19:40. > :19:47.morning I saw police officers blocking one particular pathway down
:19:48. > :19:51.from the Arc de Triomphe. I have seen soldiers in camouflage on one
:19:52. > :19:56.side St today. You see them so often that you barely notice them any
:19:57. > :20:01.more. As I was out early in the evening and seen people running
:20:02. > :20:05.away, already in the distance I saw what looked like two sirens, just
:20:06. > :20:11.reiterating what Christian Fraser said, although he was in a different
:20:12. > :20:15.location, the police were on the scene quickly because they had been
:20:16. > :20:20.deployed along the Champs-Elysees in case anything like this happened.
:20:21. > :20:25.James, I want to bring up one newswire that has come into the BBC
:20:26. > :20:28.Newsline. Reuters is quoting a police source saying the gunman
:20:29. > :20:34.killed in the shooting was known to the security services. We have no
:20:35. > :20:35.more information on that but it is interesting, as the different
:20:36. > :20:41.politicians respond to this even before we know what has happened, it
:20:42. > :20:48.is becoming inevitably politicised. It is in the first few minutes when
:20:49. > :20:59.we were still not sure what was happening.
:21:00. > :21:04.As far as we can say, the politicians believe this was a
:21:05. > :21:09.terrorist attack. We need to be cautious and work out what the
:21:10. > :21:13.motivation is. I think it might be significant, especially of the
:21:14. > :21:16.police knew who this person was. The police have had a lot of people in
:21:17. > :21:23.France under surveillance for different reasons. They did know who
:21:24. > :21:27.this person was they might have been able to identify the motivations and
:21:28. > :21:33.importantly for French people, whether that person was connected to
:21:34. > :21:37.a wider network of people. I just want to show a couple of stills that
:21:38. > :21:42.have come into the BBC newsroom. This gives an idea of the operation
:21:43. > :21:49.taking place on the Champs-Elysees. We cannot emphasise this enough. It
:21:50. > :21:55.is too early to identify a motive in the Paris attack, although if we go
:21:56. > :22:01.back to the newswires, Donald Trump has been offering his condolences,
:22:02. > :22:07.after the killing of a police officer, saying that it looks like
:22:08. > :22:11.another terrorist attack. We have a clip of President Trump responding
:22:12. > :22:16.to this which I can play you now. Our condolences from this country to
:22:17. > :22:20.the people of France, again it has happened, I saw it as I was walking
:22:21. > :22:24.in. It is a terrible thing, a very very terrible thing going on in the
:22:25. > :22:30.world today but it looks like another terrorist attack and what
:22:31. > :22:34.can you say? It just never ends. We have to be strong and we have to be
:22:35. > :22:40.vigilant and I have been saying and for a long time. Back to James
:22:41. > :22:44.Reynolds in Paris. Just for people joining us are we certain that one
:22:45. > :22:55.police officer has lost their life? Off that is what the authorities say
:22:56. > :22:57.at this stage. In terms of what the authorities are saying, this is what
:22:58. > :23:07.they are broadcasting to the media, to the people in France. The picture
:23:08. > :23:13.that is being painted by the French interior ministry spokesperson is
:23:14. > :23:17.that there was a shooting near the Champs-Elysees, targeting lease
:23:18. > :23:25.officers, that needs to be confirmed, one officer was killed,
:23:26. > :23:29.we understand from broad reports broadcast on French TV that the
:23:30. > :23:34.attacker was killed. Recent reports suggest that the attacker was known
:23:35. > :23:37.at the police. That could be very significant in helping police
:23:38. > :23:41.analyse the motivation and the network, if any, of the attacker.
:23:42. > :23:46.James, for the moment, thank you. We will come back to you in the next
:23:47. > :23:50.few minutes on Outside Source. That has been political reaction to what
:23:51. > :24:02.has happened in Paris, the Socialist candidate says, my thoughts are with
:24:03. > :24:07.the family of the policeman, Benoit Hamon using the word terrorism.
:24:08. > :24:12.Marine Le Pen saying, emotion and solidarity for our security forces
:24:13. > :24:17.again targeted. Back to Christian Fraser. Some newswires say there
:24:18. > :24:24.have been further gunshots. What more can you tell us? More shots
:24:25. > :24:26.have been fired near the Champs-Elysees, see news reports,
:24:27. > :24:40.although we have not heard them here. Francois Hollande has been in
:24:41. > :24:44.the presidential headquarters, wanting to call his senior ministers
:24:45. > :24:51.to talk about what has happened. The French newspaper Anne-Elisabeth
:24:52. > :24:55.Moutet says the attacker stopped near the Champs-Elysees, got out,
:24:56. > :24:59.shot at the police officers and was shot as he ran away. As James said
:25:00. > :25:03.we still get the sense, watching the helicopter and the activity around
:25:04. > :25:07.the area at the moment that there still is a live police operation
:25:08. > :25:11.under way. I am not sure that they are certain that there isn't someone
:25:12. > :25:15.else they are looking for. If those reports are true, and do bear in
:25:16. > :25:18.mind that people are pretty jumpy up the moment, so any loud noises
:25:19. > :25:25.people might well jump to conclusions about, but according to
:25:26. > :25:29.Reuters there have been other shots fired near the Champs-Elysees. And
:25:30. > :25:33.sifting through the information coming in. It's difficult to work
:25:34. > :25:39.out if we are talking about one person acting alone or two or three
:25:40. > :25:43.people. What have you heard? Only what you are hearing at the moment,
:25:44. > :25:49.which is that one police officer may have lost his life and another may
:25:50. > :25:53.have been injured. One of the attackers may have been killed. Let
:25:54. > :25:58.me show you something that we witnessed when we were standing here
:25:59. > :26:05.broadcasting with you a little earlier. Can you see this on the
:26:06. > :26:13.computer? This was a bus parked on the other side of Etoile. It was
:26:14. > :26:16.going around the roundabout and suddenly the police cars surrounded
:26:17. > :26:21.the bus and stopped it. I don't know what they thought was on it, there
:26:22. > :26:25.were plenty of buses around but this one they had a particular focus on.
:26:26. > :26:32.They pulled everyone who was on the bus off. They had their body armour
:26:33. > :26:37.on, they were armed police, heavily armed police surrounding it, and it
:26:38. > :26:42.was therefore probably about half an hour to one hour before the bus
:26:43. > :26:47.moved off. Does that tell us that they were looking for someone else?
:26:48. > :26:51.I don't know because they had shot the attacker on the Champs-Elysees
:26:52. > :26:54.according to the reports we've heard but if they stopped this bus is
:26:55. > :27:00.possible they thought that someone else was on the run and maybe that
:27:01. > :27:05.person had got onto a bus at the top of the Champs-Elysees and was trying
:27:06. > :27:09.to get away from the scene, it was interesting that they picked on that
:27:10. > :27:12.particular bus. Thank you, Christian. There has been a shooting
:27:13. > :27:18.on the Champs-Elysees in the centre of Paris. These are live pictures.
:27:19. > :27:22.The Reuters news agency says shots have been fired at a new location
:27:23. > :27:27.near the Champs-Elysees. That's according to a police source. The
:27:28. > :27:32.police have said that one police officer has lost their life and
:27:33. > :27:35.another has been injured. The French interior ministry has emphasised
:27:36. > :27:40.explicitly that they do not know the motivation behind what happened on
:27:41. > :27:44.the Champs-Elysees. Just to highlight to those of you watching,
:27:45. > :27:52.many of you will know this very famous avenue, right in the centre
:27:53. > :27:58.of Paris with the Arc de Triomphe at one end of it. Let's speak to
:27:59. > :28:04.Christian Fraser again. We talked about the political context of this,
:28:05. > :28:07.the other context is the fact that Paris has experienced many traumas
:28:08. > :28:14.involving attacks in the last 18 months. I think it has an
:28:15. > :28:18.accumulative effect on the population in Paris especially on a
:28:19. > :28:23.night like this. It was interesting as an observer to watch how people
:28:24. > :28:31.reacted to what was going on. As soon as police started going in one
:28:32. > :28:36.direction, we saw a group of youngsters who had come to look at
:28:37. > :28:41.the eternal flame and they were told to clear Etoile as quickly as they
:28:42. > :28:44.could and immediately they panicked. Maybe the rumour of gunshots had
:28:45. > :28:47.gone around, but they started running everywhere and it was
:28:48. > :28:52.difficult for the police to control them and keep everyone calm.
:28:53. > :28:57.Everyone jumps to the same conclusion because they have bitter
:28:58. > :29:03.experience of previous attacks. It is not only the Charlie Hebdo attack
:29:04. > :29:05.and the Bataclan attack which were horrendous, but peppered through
:29:06. > :29:11.those months there have been countless attacks on the police. And
:29:12. > :29:15.according to the French media wires that I can see, they claimed the
:29:16. > :29:29.police were specifically targeted in this attack. We've seen policemen
:29:30. > :29:32.before stabbed from behind, in La Defense, while protecting the
:29:33. > :29:35.public, they are conscious that they are targets for someone who might
:29:36. > :29:40.come up behind them and they don't expect it to try to hurt one of them
:29:41. > :29:46.and kill one of them. It sounds as if it might have been the case
:29:47. > :29:50.tonight. Christian, thank you. For those viewers just joining us, let's
:29:51. > :29:54.remind ourselves of what is happening. There's been a shooting
:29:55. > :29:59.in the Champs-Elysees in the centre of Paris, one police officer has
:30:00. > :30:01.lost his or her life, the authorities say another has been
:30:02. > :30:06.wounded. There are other elements to the story which we can bring you.
:30:07. > :30:12.Some of which are confirmed, others not. This is the Reuters news agency
:30:13. > :30:16.picking up on what Christian said. There are reports that shots had
:30:17. > :30:20.been fired at a new location near the Champs-Elysees, according to one
:30:21. > :30:26.police source speaking to Reuters. Know the political reaction as well.
:30:27. > :30:27.Remember it is round one of the French presidential election on
:30:28. > :31:00.Sunday. His use of the word terrorism is
:31:01. > :31:04.significant because over the last hour, the French Interior Ministry
:31:05. > :31:08.has emphasised we do not know the nature of this attack. I want to
:31:09. > :31:17.bring up a couple of other newswires coming into the BBC newsroom.
:31:18. > :31:21.Reuters quoting a police source, say a second policeman has died from
:31:22. > :31:27.wounds of the Paris shootings. We knew that one person had lost their
:31:28. > :31:30.life. According to Reuters, we do not have this confirmed, but they
:31:31. > :31:34.had been correct on all the other elements of the story so far,
:31:35. > :31:41.reporting a second policeman has lost their life. The nearby stations
:31:42. > :31:46.to the Paris Metro had been closed and we can bring in the BBC's
:31:47. > :31:53.Christian Fraser again. In terms of what is happening in and around...
:31:54. > :32:01.Hi, Christian. I am just watching the helicopter. Apart from the
:32:02. > :32:06.Champs-Elysees itself, are people able to move around within the area
:32:07. > :32:11.quite easily? Yes, but there are not a lot of people. A public
:32:12. > :32:17.announcement has gone out, urging people to stay away from the
:32:18. > :32:22.Champs-Elysees. That seems to have been led by people in this area.
:32:23. > :32:29.There are very few people on the pavements at the moment. The people
:32:30. > :32:34.are being directed from other areas, directed away from the
:32:35. > :32:38.Champs-Elysees. I can still see, down the Champs-Elysees, there are
:32:39. > :32:41.armed police in prominent positions up and down the Champs-Elysees, near
:32:42. > :32:45.some of the restaurants and hotels. What I do not know is whether people
:32:46. > :32:48.have been allowed to leave restaurants or whether they had been
:32:49. > :32:54.kept in place until they are absolutely sure there is no one
:32:55. > :32:59.still out there. But still a lot of police activity going on. You can
:33:00. > :33:05.probably see some of the flashing blue lights. They moved from the
:33:06. > :33:10.underpass, they have left the scene at the moment, maybe they had been
:33:11. > :33:14.moved forward onto the Champs-Elysees, but generally it is
:33:15. > :33:18.reasonably quiet and secure now. The helicopter appears to have moved to
:33:19. > :33:21.a different part of the city, it is not circulating around the
:33:22. > :33:25.Champs-Elysees for the moment. All the while we are talking, more
:33:26. > :33:29.information is coming in. Let's bring more of that for you.
:33:30. > :33:34.According to a police source talking to Reuters, police are searching the
:33:35. > :33:42.home of the person who carried out the attack on the Champs-Elysees. We
:33:43. > :33:46.have also seen wire copy coming in that the authorities are saying this
:33:47. > :33:50.person was known the authorities. This is also relevant, this from
:33:51. > :33:55.Reuters will stop the counterterrorism office open an
:33:56. > :33:59.investigation into the shooting, one of the gunmen was killed in the
:34:00. > :34:03.attack was known to the security forces. That phrase, one of the
:34:04. > :34:06.gunmen, is interesting because there is a huge amount of uncertainty
:34:07. > :34:11.around whether this attack was carried out by one person or more.
:34:12. > :34:16.Some reports have said one, other have said more. They cannot be
:34:17. > :34:20.certain at all at the moment. If you are just joining us, many of you
:34:21. > :34:24.watching will have been to Paris, and you will certainly have been to
:34:25. > :34:31.the Champs-Elysees. We have the Arc de Triomphe and the road comes away
:34:32. > :34:38.from that to the east. It is one of the most famous roads and do world.
:34:39. > :34:42.One journalist who lived closest to the Champs-Elysees, they said even
:34:43. > :34:46.in the evening this would've been incredibly busy. Let's update you on
:34:47. > :34:53.a couple of other elements to the story. We have heard Francois Fillon
:34:54. > :34:58.paying tribute to the security forces. As we were discussing, even
:34:59. > :35:03.though we do not know the very nature of this attack, already it is
:35:04. > :35:06.becoming politicised the different candidates for the presidency
:35:07. > :35:13.offering their condolences and, in some cases, their thoughts about
:35:14. > :35:19.what has happened. Let's bring in a security expert. Thank you for your
:35:20. > :35:22.time. With a story and situation unfolding like this, what will be
:35:23. > :35:28.the priorities of the security forces on the Champs-Elysees? One of
:35:29. > :35:34.the key issues will be to try to control information that will be
:35:35. > :35:39.circulating around, and it will be to try to gather as much evidence as
:35:40. > :35:43.they possibly can, again in peace times when most of us will have some
:35:44. > :35:48.kind of camera within our phones. They will try to get as much
:35:49. > :35:52.evidence as they can, particularly as reports are led to believe. One
:35:53. > :36:00.of the gunmen potentially is on the run. In terms of communication with
:36:01. > :36:04.the concerned public, presumably that has to remain a priority, even
:36:05. > :36:11.though the police may not know exactly what is happening? No,
:36:12. > :36:16.absolutely. They're in mind what a cosmopolitan city Paris is, much
:36:17. > :36:20.like London when we had the Westminster attack recently, there
:36:21. > :36:25.will try to get the that not only to the local residents, but also all
:36:26. > :36:34.foreign visitors. The Champs-Elysees is such a representative sight of
:36:35. > :36:39.Paris, and this is the ideal target particularly by some terrorist
:36:40. > :36:45.affiliated groups because it is the capital and internationally
:36:46. > :36:51.recognised. Police will control this local area as much as possible,
:36:52. > :36:56.particularly as there may be other strands to this. One cannot presume
:36:57. > :37:02.there isn't these days. They will control people indoors and the local
:37:03. > :37:08.areas and then ultimately making sure other people do not come into
:37:09. > :37:14.this catchment area. Stay with us. Earlier, I mentioned that we had
:37:15. > :37:17.potential reports of another shooting close to the
:37:18. > :37:21.Champs-Elysees. Paris police have confirmed to the BBC that that
:37:22. > :37:29.reporter for the gunfire was a force report. People were claiming there
:37:30. > :37:33.were further gunshots. Since we have contacted the resume police who have
:37:34. > :37:42.said that was a force report. Will, it highlights the amount of
:37:43. > :37:47.disinformation and in misinformation the authorities are sifting through.
:37:48. > :37:51.Absolutely. One only has to look at Twitter a look at the various
:37:52. > :37:56.reports coming in from different sources. Even the BBC will resort to
:37:57. > :38:02.Twitter to try to gather as much information as they can. News
:38:03. > :38:06.agencies like yourself has a bigger job as the police do, sifting
:38:07. > :38:10.through information, following up on reports, and it is not uncommon that
:38:11. > :38:16.we will hear of simultaneous attacks or other reports of attacks within
:38:17. > :38:22.proximity or possibly close by, and again this could be from a variety
:38:23. > :38:26.of different elements, it could be from individuals who heard the
:38:27. > :38:30.initial attacks, and particularly in a city where sound can travel
:38:31. > :38:34.extensively, it can be leading to greater levels of concern. This is
:38:35. > :38:39.why the authorities will need to come up with a formal statement
:38:40. > :38:42.pretty quickly to again reassure the general public that they have
:38:43. > :38:49.control of the situation. One further question, we all being told
:38:50. > :38:53.this attack was known to the authorities. In those circumstances
:38:54. > :38:57.presumably they are able to move much faster in investigating.
:38:58. > :39:02.Absolutely. The French had been playing catch-up game since some of
:39:03. > :39:08.the earlier attacks, particularly Charlie Hebdo, which was a wake-up
:39:09. > :39:13.call for them. But because quite a few of the notable attacks in the
:39:14. > :39:15.last year or so have come from a variety of different areas, the
:39:16. > :39:21.concern right now is that ultimately, they need to have
:39:22. > :39:27.immediate triggers of any particular names to ensure that if they do
:39:28. > :39:30.recognise is a perpetrator's name, they can follow that lead very
:39:31. > :39:37.quickly. We appreciate your time, thank you very much for joining us.
:39:38. > :39:45.In the last few minutes, I have brought you there is political
:39:46. > :39:48.reactions. The far left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon saying, my
:39:49. > :39:56.thoughts to the police and their families. Jean-Luc Melenchon
:39:57. > :40:03.describing this as a terrorist act while the authorities are saying
:40:04. > :40:10.they did not know the motivation. Let me check again, the news wires
:40:11. > :40:15.coming in here. President Armand is holding a crisis meeting with the
:40:16. > :40:18.Prime Minister and interior Minister as you would expect with a situation
:40:19. > :40:30.like this unfolding. Here is what one eyewitness had to say. We were
:40:31. > :40:33.moving towards a car and then I heard two or three shots but I did
:40:34. > :40:38.not realise they were shots to start with. Then there was panic all
:40:39. > :40:41.around, everyone started running down the Champs-Elysees by instinct.
:40:42. > :40:47.I did not stop to work out what was going on, I just ran. Police were
:40:48. > :40:51.already in place, blocking the road with the trucks, I took shelter
:40:52. > :40:55.behind them. I did not have time to do anything other than just run
:40:56. > :41:01.away. The French Interior Ministry... It is saying they are
:41:02. > :41:05.assessing the vehicle of the assailant with regards to the attack
:41:06. > :41:12.on the Champs-Elysees. It can also show you some of the Stills coming
:41:13. > :41:15.in of the police operation underway. Particularly because of what has
:41:16. > :41:20.happened in Paris over the last couple of years, the response to
:41:21. > :41:28.this incident has been considerable, as you would expect. Let's bring
:41:29. > :41:35.back Ken James in Paris. Please bring us date with what you have
:41:36. > :41:39.got. I want to repeat a report on the Reuters news agency, suggesting
:41:40. > :41:44.police are carrying out a search at the attacker's home east of Paris.
:41:45. > :41:47.In the last 30 or 40 minutes, we have brought you those reports,
:41:48. > :41:52.suggesting they knew who the suspected attacker was. Those
:41:53. > :41:56.reports have developed and suggest the police are carrying out a search
:41:57. > :42:00.of the person's house. It is important because they will want to
:42:01. > :42:05.work at exactly who he was, why he might have carried out this attack
:42:06. > :42:09.and whether or not he was working with any others. In that last
:42:10. > :42:14.question is critical, as the police try to work out if it is over or if
:42:15. > :42:17.there are other people they need to go look for. We had this interesting
:42:18. > :42:22.situation with the police are saying, we did not know what is
:42:23. > :42:28.behind this attack, the already very high profile politicians are calling
:42:29. > :42:33.it an act of terrorism. Yes, and you can almost imagine politicians
:42:34. > :42:37.thinking there is no harm in condemning terrorism as soon as they
:42:38. > :42:42.hear of an attack on the police, it does them no harm even if it turns
:42:43. > :42:46.out the attack had other motives. Very early on after we had the
:42:47. > :42:51.report, there was one initial report from the police suggesting it was a
:42:52. > :42:55.terrorist attack. There are suggestions it might possibly be a
:42:56. > :42:59.robbery. We have not seen anything further than that because at the
:43:00. > :43:05.moment, there are reports that the man was known to the police only.
:43:06. > :43:08.Let me bring you another few updates. The Prime Minister has
:43:09. > :43:13.taken to Twitter to pay tribute to the policeman killed in the attack
:43:14. > :43:16.tonight, falls to his family and solidarity with the injured
:43:17. > :43:23.colleagues and relatives. To reiterate to you, we have heard from
:43:24. > :43:25.Donald Trump as well, who was offered his condolences to the
:43:26. > :43:30.people of France after the killing of the police officer in Paris,
:43:31. > :43:35.saying it looks like another terrorist act. Donald Trump has been
:43:36. > :43:39.meeting the leader of Italy. We were expecting to be covering the joint
:43:40. > :43:43.press conference but that's not happened for obvious reasons, but
:43:44. > :43:47.Donald Trump is offering his condolences to the people of France
:43:48. > :43:54.because of a terrorist act let's bring in James again. We talked
:43:55. > :43:58.earlier that the authorities had said one person had died, Voigt is
:43:59. > :44:02.then carried a report saying a second police officer had died, are
:44:03. > :44:09.we able to confirm that yet? I am reading something I have seen on
:44:10. > :44:15.social media. Second police officer has succumbed to his wounds. Those
:44:16. > :44:19.reports coming from various police federations, saying there is a
:44:20. > :44:23.second police officer who has been killed. We have not yet heard that
:44:24. > :44:28.from the government, the Interior Ministry, and as French people know
:44:29. > :44:32.all too well, it is the Interior Ministry to whom they have to turn
:44:33. > :44:37.the term for updates on nights or days like this. Tell us about the
:44:38. > :44:42.Champs-Elysees. If anyone wants to drive up it, can the? They can.
:44:43. > :44:46.Earlier today, when I was coming in from the airport, it was very
:44:47. > :44:51.difficult to get down from the Arc de Triomphe. We had to use side
:44:52. > :44:55.roads because the police had blocked off one Particular Rd heading down
:44:56. > :45:00.from the Arc de Triomphe which caused a lot of traffic jams. It
:45:01. > :45:06.would not have been easy to get down from one side to another but later
:45:07. > :45:10.on, I saw traffic going in both directions and I did not notice...
:45:11. > :45:13.It would been unheard of to have checkpoints on either side of the
:45:14. > :45:17.Champs-Elysees. If there was an attacker who wanted to drive along
:45:18. > :45:21.the Champs-Elysees and then find police officers on either side of
:45:22. > :45:26.the road, that would've been doable. In terms of how many people carried
:45:27. > :45:31.this attack out, one person was involved, do we have any indication
:45:32. > :45:37.as to whether they acted alone or with help? We do not we will
:45:38. > :45:41.remember what you were speaking to Christian about, when he was talking
:45:42. > :45:45.about the police surrounding a bus. That gives you an indication of the
:45:46. > :45:48.instinct the police will have on the minutes after an attack, where they
:45:49. > :45:52.will not just think this person was alone, they will look anyone in the
:45:53. > :45:58.area and try to identify the person and find out who his network of
:45:59. > :46:02.people, supporters, may have been. We do not have any indication do at
:46:03. > :46:07.this stage whether or not the attacker was driving with anyone
:46:08. > :46:14.else or whether he was alone. James, for the moment, thank you very much
:46:15. > :46:18.for your help again. I'm live in London, where a story has been
:46:19. > :46:23.developing over the last 90 minutes or so. Let me reiterate where we
:46:24. > :46:28.have got to. There has been a shooting on the Champs-Elysees in
:46:29. > :46:35.Paris, the city's most famous street and arguably France's. One police
:46:36. > :46:39.officer has lost his life. We did have a statement from a police union
:46:40. > :46:43.and there is a separate police source saying a second police
:46:44. > :46:48.officer has lost his life but we're not able to confirm that at the
:46:49. > :46:53.moment. High-profile politicians and France have referred to this as an
:46:54. > :46:56.act of terrorism, however the French interior minister is saying, we do
:46:57. > :47:04.not know the motivation behind this attack. There is one person involved
:47:05. > :47:07.that they have been reports of extra people being involved. However,
:47:08. > :47:11.quite often in developing stories like this, you get reports of extra
:47:12. > :47:15.people being involved and it does not prove to be the case, so we
:47:16. > :47:23.cannot confirm if anyone was involved beyond that single
:47:24. > :47:27.attacker. If we go in closer, we can see the Arctic Triomphe where we
:47:28. > :47:32.were talking to Christian Fraser, and the attack took place in the
:47:33. > :47:37.Champs-Elysees to the east. Throughout the hour, more
:47:38. > :47:41.information has been coming through. We have plugged back into the BBC
:47:42. > :47:48.newsroom to access all the latest information. All the stations nearby
:47:49. > :47:57.to wear this attack is taken place have been closed. Police are also
:47:58. > :48:03.warning people not to spread any misinformation that has not come
:48:04. > :48:08.from a trusted source save the authorities. Also, the
:48:09. > :48:14.counterterrorism officers have offered an investigation into the
:48:15. > :48:18.shooting. You will notice this wire from Reuters talks about gunmen,
:48:19. > :48:22.we're not sure whether it was a gunman or gunmen, but one person has
:48:23. > :48:29.been killed. According to a police source, speaking to the authorities.
:48:30. > :48:34.A couple of other things to mention here. Donald Trump has come out and
:48:35. > :48:38.offered his condolences to France over what has happened, saying, it
:48:39. > :48:44.looks like another terrorist attack. James has been helping us from the
:48:45. > :48:47.newsroom of the BBC in Paris. Christian was just by the
:48:48. > :48:52.Champs-Elysees. We spoke to him on Outside Source when it was not clear
:48:53. > :48:58.when this story was developing, but we are clear now it has happened. Is
:48:59. > :49:05.is still ongoing? Do we know if this is a live situation? There are a lot
:49:06. > :49:11.of conflicting reports so I do not want to put information at the that
:49:12. > :49:13.might not stand up but there are reports quoting police sources that
:49:14. > :49:18.there is another attack of are looking for. I have just seen
:49:19. > :49:23.footage sent to me by people who are in Paris of what looks to be the
:49:24. > :49:28.immediate aftermath of the shooting, and you can see the police van in
:49:29. > :49:33.the car that was pulled up right alongside it, and what you picture
:49:34. > :49:38.in the image is a police man putting his gun down on the pavement as if
:49:39. > :49:43.they just just killed the attacker had just literally come upon them.
:49:44. > :49:49.We are also hearing from various news reports, unconfirmed, two
:49:50. > :49:53.policeman had been killed but they are also saying the third one had
:49:54. > :50:02.been injured. Maybe there were three is part of a small group. But it is
:50:03. > :50:07.halfway down the Champs-Elysees in a very busy area of the street. We are
:50:08. > :50:13.also hearing as you confirm the night that this attack was known to
:50:14. > :50:21.the intelligence services. If they are known to them, then we are
:50:22. > :50:26.starting to move toward someone to would've been known to the
:50:27. > :50:31.anti-terrorist police, and it is a very strange thing to get out of a
:50:32. > :50:35.car and start shooting at police officers if you will carry out an
:50:36. > :50:39.armed robbery, said this might be why politicians are starting to step
:50:40. > :50:48.over to this area that this might have been a specific attack aimed at
:50:49. > :50:55.police officers. There are also reports focusing on the TV report,
:50:56. > :51:00.they are saying that there was social media from the gunmen, saying
:51:01. > :51:04.he wanted to attack police officers. All of that will be part of the
:51:05. > :51:10.focus in the next 12 hours. But as James said, this will be an ongoing
:51:11. > :51:16.police operation right up until the election now because, whether or not
:51:17. > :51:19.there is one attack or two, that person would be known to other
:51:20. > :51:22.people, that is why they are searching the property and they will
:51:23. > :51:26.want to know who that person has been in contact with over the last
:51:27. > :51:33.few days, and is the threat from the people but that person new? If it is
:51:34. > :51:39.not focused on the other attacker that might have got away. It is
:51:40. > :51:45.worth reiterating that the reason Christian is in Paris is to cover
:51:46. > :51:49.the French election. It is the first round on Sunday, and Christian is
:51:50. > :51:54.there, but as Christian just pointed out, the remainder of the campaign
:51:55. > :51:58.is likely to be dominated by what is happening in Paris. A little while
:51:59. > :52:01.ago, I was talking to James, we were both saying we have these
:52:02. > :52:05.unconfirmed reports that second police officer had lost his life. We
:52:06. > :52:09.have been cautious about that because even though news agencies
:52:10. > :52:15.were putting out there, we were not able to confirm that. The reason we
:52:16. > :52:18.were being cautious is because the French Interior Ministry
:52:19. > :52:22.spokesperson said a second police officer is not dead, they are
:52:23. > :52:26.telling us that two police officers are seriously wounded, and this
:52:27. > :52:30.highlights the amount of information flying around on how you have to be
:52:31. > :52:33.cautious about it. The French interior Ministry saying a second
:52:34. > :52:40.police officer has not lost his life but that two police officers are
:52:41. > :52:45.seriously wounded. One police officer has died. I also want to
:52:46. > :52:48.show you this. A spokesperson saying they cannot exclude that there were
:52:49. > :52:53.one or more attackers but again that comes back to what I was saying. We
:52:54. > :52:58.have had multiple reports, some saying it it was someone acting
:52:59. > :53:03.alone, some saying there were more than one person involved, nor it
:53:04. > :53:08.seems at the moment, can be Interior Ministry be sure. Let's go back to
:53:09. > :53:12.Christian. You know Paris very well that many people watching will not
:53:13. > :53:17.been to Paris. What is the Champs-Elysees like at this time of
:53:18. > :53:24.the evening of people been doing the? They would be going on a
:53:25. > :53:28.promenade. People come out to walk up and down the street and take on
:53:29. > :53:34.the sites and meet people, go to the shops. The people who have never
:53:35. > :53:41.been here, it is very much like Oxford Street or Regent's Street. It
:53:42. > :53:46.is a very big pavement. You could have 20 or 30 people deep at any one
:53:47. > :53:50.time. I walked up there the night and it was really busy because it is
:53:51. > :53:54.that sort of night where people can sit out on the terraces of cafes,
:53:55. > :53:58.bright blue skies, everyone was enjoying the sunshine this evening,
:53:59. > :54:06.and at that time in the evening when it happened, at around 8:50pm local
:54:07. > :54:10.time, that would be peak tourist time, but just how quickly the
:54:11. > :54:14.situation changed was extraordinary. We will broadcasting at the foot of
:54:15. > :54:19.the building here, talking to you. First one police car and then
:54:20. > :54:26.another, and then they came from all directions. Where to go out on the
:54:27. > :54:30.police radio, it was police cars and ambulances, an unmarked police cars,
:54:31. > :54:35.in such a tearing hurry to get to the Champs-Elysees to find out what
:54:36. > :54:40.was going on and perhaps helped colleagues, they almost knocked down
:54:41. > :54:44.pedestrians, it was bedlam for five or ten minutes. I sure do those
:54:45. > :54:52.pictures. This picture of the bus that was suddenly surrounded on the
:54:53. > :55:00.12 by probably seven or eight police cars. Armed police jumped out. You
:55:01. > :55:02.can see them with their prizes on. They got everybody of this boss and
:55:03. > :55:05.it was clear to me they thought someone was on that bus who might
:55:06. > :55:10.have got away from the Champs-Elysees because there were
:55:11. > :55:15.other buses going around but this particular boss was a focus for
:55:16. > :55:18.attention. I do not know why, but it suggests to me they thought there
:55:19. > :55:23.was somebody who might have been connected to the attack on that bus,
:55:24. > :55:30.trying to leave the scene. Right now, it is reasonably quiet. We are
:55:31. > :55:33.hearing some reports there is an ongoing operation around the
:55:34. > :55:41.Champs-Elysees. The focus seems to be in eastern Paris in a building
:55:42. > :55:44.they know to be connected with this attacker and they will hope to glean
:55:45. > :55:48.as much intelligence from that as they can over the coming hours to
:55:49. > :55:52.avoid any repeat of what has happened this evening. I have one
:55:53. > :55:56.more question for you about politics. Let me show everyone
:55:57. > :56:00.watching the response we have seen from the four people who have a
:56:01. > :56:04.realistic chance of becoming the next French president. There are 11
:56:05. > :56:08.candidates but realistically only four have a prospect of getting
:56:09. > :56:13.through round one and into the final round which is a head-to-head. We
:56:14. > :56:21.have heard from awful. Emmanuel Macron says, I want to show all my
:56:22. > :56:25.solidarity with our law enforcement. Francois Fillon says, the picture be
:56:26. > :56:30.to the security forces who give their lives to protect ours.
:56:31. > :56:35.Jean-Luc Melenchon said, thoughts for the police dead and injured,
:56:36. > :56:46.terrorist acts never go unpunished. And then Marina pen, who has been
:56:47. > :56:51.leading the polls for the last few weeks, says, emotion and solidarity
:56:52. > :56:57.for our security forces again being targeted. That phrase from Marine Le
:56:58. > :57:01.Pen highlights a big issue she has emphasised throughout this campaign
:57:02. > :57:07.which you feel that front is not getting it security right. A lot of
:57:08. > :57:12.candidates will focus on that and the need for more resources for the
:57:13. > :57:19.intelligence services. I was talking to a Europe Minister tonight, and
:57:20. > :57:23.outward looking liberal guy, who is supporting Francois Fillon, he says
:57:24. > :57:27.the threat is severe in France. He says there are 15,000 people in
:57:28. > :57:31.France that need to be watched, and clearly you cannot watch all those
:57:32. > :57:38.people were any one time. So, yes, there will a debate in France about
:57:39. > :57:41.providing more resources for the security services, but surely there
:57:42. > :57:45.also has to be a conversation about the division in French society. They
:57:46. > :57:53.talk about the gulf between inner-city Paris and the urban
:57:54. > :58:00.centres like this, and its housing and opportunities and opportunities
:58:01. > :58:03.for migrant communities that underscore and create this division
:58:04. > :58:07.in French society, and that has to be looked at as part of the
:58:08. > :58:14.political debate as well. Christian, thank you very much for your help
:58:15. > :58:19.over the last hour. Let's recap what we have learnt in the last hour. One
:58:20. > :58:22.police officer has lost his life after being shot in the
:58:23. > :58:26.Champs-Elysees. The person who carried out the attack has been shot
:58:27. > :58:30.dead but it is not clear if he or she was acting alone but the French
:58:31. > :58:35.interior ministry is denying reports a second police officer has died,
:58:36. > :58:40.but they are telling us two police officers are seriously wounded.
:58:41. > :58:45.These pictures are live from Paris at the moment. You can see various
:58:46. > :58:49.personnel going over that particular vehicle in great detail. That
:58:50. > :58:54.matches what we were told a few minutes ago, that one particular
:58:55. > :58:59.vehicle was being focused on. Let's check on one last time nor the
:59:00. > :59:05.latest information coming in to the BBC newsroom. Very interesting from
:59:06. > :59:11.Reuters. Police have issued an arrest warrant for a second suspect
:59:12. > :59:15.in the shooting who arrived from Belgium by train. If that is true,
:59:16. > :59:24.that changes the nature of the story we are talking about. That is just a
:59:25. > :59:28.police source speaking to Reuters. Then we have the French interior
:59:29. > :59:32.Ministry spokesperson saying that they cannot exclude that there were
:59:33. > :59:37.one or more attackers. While there is more and more information coming
:59:38. > :59:43.in as to what happened in central Paris this evening, a lot of things
:59:44. > :59:48.remain unknown, not just the journalists covering the story, but
:59:49. > :59:50.the authorities as well. This is a developing situation in Paris and
:59:51. > :59:55.you will get the very latest from all of us here in the BBC newsroom.
:59:56. > :00:00.Coverage continues over the next few minutes. Goodbye.