:00:00. > :00:00.motive unclear at the moment as are the sequence of events confusing.
:00:00. > :00:11.Coverage of this unfolding story continues here on BBC News. We have
:00:12. > :00:12.a developing story in Paris where there has been a shooting on the
:00:13. > :00:21.Champs Elysees. This is from a French news agency
:00:22. > :00:26.stating that one police officer has been killed and over the wounded by
:00:27. > :00:30.the shooting in the Champs-Elysees, and we are told by the French
:00:31. > :00:35.interior ministry that an attacker has been killed. Next I can show you
:00:36. > :00:45.live pictures coming into the BBC newsroom. You get an idea of the
:00:46. > :00:54.operation underway in the city. Let's bring in Christian Fraser from
:00:55. > :01:00.the BBC who is in Paris. What have you heard? Funnily enough Ros I
:01:01. > :01:04.started broadcasting with the one hour ago, I saw the police and I
:01:05. > :01:10.knew something was wrong, I did not know where it was but I know there
:01:11. > :01:18.was a commotion. We are broadcasting here, that is Etoile behind us, the
:01:19. > :01:24.traffic is being redirected away from the Champs-Elysees, it's being
:01:25. > :01:30.directed towards Concord and the street is empty, they have pulled
:01:31. > :01:32.back the cordon towards Etoile and the helicopter is basically making a
:01:33. > :01:39.grand circle around the Champs-Elysees. It is going back
:01:40. > :01:48.down towards us. Police cars are still moving around, just after we
:01:49. > :01:52.had spoken to you clearly the message had gone out on the radio
:01:53. > :01:56.that one officer had been shot and they were coming from all
:01:57. > :02:09.directions. It was bedlam. There was one unmarked police car that came
:02:10. > :02:11.tearing up the Grande Armee desperate to get to the
:02:12. > :02:17.Champs-Elysees because they did not know what had happened. The street
:02:18. > :02:26.was full of people as it is on beautiful nights like this, people
:02:27. > :02:31.walking up and down a very busy street, maybe we passed some of the
:02:32. > :02:35.people who came under attack, there is a visible presence of armed
:02:36. > :02:39.police on the Champs-Elysees as always. Before we keep talking,
:02:40. > :02:44.Christian, let me bring in further developments. The Reuters news
:02:45. > :02:49.agency say that three police sources say the shooting in Paris could have
:02:50. > :02:54.been an attempt at an armed robbery. Writers have also put out a tweet
:02:55. > :02:58.from a police source saying it is probably a terrorist attack. Which
:02:59. > :03:03.highlights the fact that we don't know who's responsible, we don't
:03:04. > :03:07.know what has happened yet. And as ever with these situations you have
:03:08. > :03:14.to be careful about what conclusions jump to. The city is on a high state
:03:15. > :03:17.of alert. We are three days from a general election and there are
:03:18. > :03:25.plenty of people in France who would like to disrupt it, so serious is it
:03:26. > :03:29.that the police are bringing in private security guards to help man
:03:30. > :03:34.some polling stations. We are still in a state of emergency in France,
:03:35. > :03:38.it has been extended and they will be on the highest state of alert
:03:39. > :03:41.particularly after what has gone on. You are right to put caution on it.
:03:42. > :03:48.It is a busy street, lots of jewellers shops on that street, it
:03:49. > :03:54.could easily have been an armed robbery as well as it could have
:03:55. > :03:59.been a terror attack. Stay with us peace. We will highlight where the
:04:00. > :04:05.attack took place. If we go in closely you can see the
:04:06. > :04:09.Champs-Elysees is marked. I can see one eyewitnesses quoted as saying
:04:10. > :04:12.that a man got out of a car and began shooting with a Kalashnikov.
:04:13. > :04:17.The BBC can't confirm that at the moment. Let's bring up the
:04:18. > :04:32.newswires, which are coming through. Apparently one shot was fired as the
:04:33. > :04:36.car stopped at a red light. All the latest news reports coming in. Let's
:04:37. > :04:45.listen to a police warning to people on the Champs-Elysees. You have to
:04:46. > :04:55.stay back. Please stay back. Ladies and gentlemen, stay back, please. I
:04:56. > :04:59.mean, look exactly where this attack will have taken place. This is the
:05:00. > :05:06.Champs-Elysees, one of the most famous roads, not just in France, in
:05:07. > :05:09.the world. We are still getting more details on precisely where the
:05:10. > :05:12.attack happened. Let's speak to James Reynolds who is monitoring
:05:13. > :05:19.this story from the BBC newsroom in Paris. What information do you have,
:05:20. > :05:24.James? We are keeping an eye on the French channels. They suggest
:05:25. > :05:28.something similar to what you have said, there was a car, in which
:05:29. > :05:34.there was an attacker, these initial reports say he got out and fired
:05:35. > :05:37.towards the police. There are other questions to be answered, were the
:05:38. > :05:42.others in the car, what's happened to that car, with the police
:05:43. > :05:48.targeted, remember there are lots of police on the Champs-Elysees. Our
:05:49. > :05:53.colleague Christian Fraser has brought these pictures. I was on a
:05:54. > :05:57.side street possibly moments after the shooting happened, my colleagues
:05:58. > :06:00.and I were simply walking towards the Champs-Elysees, we saw a small
:06:01. > :06:04.group of people running towards us, we from the Champs-Elysees, looking
:06:05. > :06:09.panicked, one woman said that had been a man with a gun, we could not
:06:10. > :06:13.get much more information from her. And then we saw the police taking
:06:14. > :06:19.control of the small side road from the Champs-Elysees ordering people
:06:20. > :06:23.to stay inside. This evening all the main residential candidates, all 11
:06:24. > :06:26.of them are taking part in a big television event. If that's
:06:27. > :06:34.continuing? Have they commented on this? They have been commenting on
:06:35. > :06:39.Twitter. I haven't followed the progress of the debate, I did manage
:06:40. > :06:42.to watch the first three or four segments including one where Marine
:06:43. > :06:46.Le Pen talked about the issue of what she called terrorism. Clearly
:06:47. > :06:51.this news has dominated and the candidates have wanted to express
:06:52. > :07:01.themselves and get their points of view out on Twitter. If you are just
:07:02. > :07:05.tuning in, that has been a shooting on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. We
:07:06. > :07:10.don't know the circumstances, we don't know the motivation. We have
:07:11. > :07:16.had contradictory claims on that. We are best not going down the road of
:07:17. > :07:22.speculation. What we do know is that it has happened on the
:07:23. > :07:29.Champs-Elysees. Confirmation from the French interior ministry, they
:07:30. > :07:41.say that police officers were deliberately targeted. Let me bring
:07:42. > :07:44.up another piece of information, police sources say that two
:07:45. > :07:49.attackers were involved and one was killed. I was just speaking to my
:07:50. > :07:59.colleague about that important TV debate in France, we have heard that
:08:00. > :08:02.has been suspended. Each presidential candidate was going to
:08:03. > :08:07.be quizzed in front of a sizeable audience across the country but that
:08:08. > :08:14.will not be continuing as normal because of what is happening in
:08:15. > :08:19.Paris. The police, as often happens in these emergency situations, are
:08:20. > :08:25.using social media to communicate, one tweet recommends that you avoid
:08:26. > :08:29.the area of the Champs-Elysees and as James and Christian have
:08:30. > :08:35.explained they had to move, because of the police coming in again,
:08:36. > :08:37.police intervention under Way, avoid the sector, follow the instructions
:08:38. > :08:53.of the police forces. Let's speak to Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, a
:08:54. > :09:00.journalist who often joins us here. You don't live far away, what have
:09:01. > :09:04.you heard? I heard it on my computer before I looked outside but I was
:09:05. > :09:08.wondering why helicopters were in the sky because they are flying over
:09:09. > :09:13.Paris and normally that's forbidden. I live at the corner of two streets,
:09:14. > :09:20.one block off the Champs-Elysees, and I could see police cars in my
:09:21. > :09:24.street, and it was very obvious that it was to get on the street to go to
:09:25. > :09:30.the Champs-Elysees, so the whole thing was being cordoned off. And
:09:31. > :09:39.then of course I got the news by television and Twitter. And they
:09:40. > :09:42.talked about and attack, announced by the interior minister who said
:09:43. > :09:45.that there had been a deliberate attack against a French police
:09:46. > :09:52.officer and that the assailants were both dead. What I did not know, and
:09:53. > :09:56.had only recently, is that one of the policeman is also dead. This
:09:57. > :10:00.happened in a segment of the Champs-Elysees we have many
:10:01. > :10:06.shoppers, many tourists, many restaurants, and that would have
:10:07. > :10:09.been a place where at any time of the evening, especially the early
:10:10. > :10:15.evening, you would have close to 100,000 people between the top on
:10:16. > :10:19.the bottom of the street so potentially a place where you could
:10:20. > :10:23.have a disaster. I was going to ask you, even at this time of the
:10:24. > :10:29.evening it would be a busy place. Hugely busy. It's the time when it
:10:30. > :10:33.is most busy in the day. Early evening, people are about to go and
:10:34. > :10:37.see movies at the second show or they are just coming out of movies
:10:38. > :10:42.and there are lots of restaurants and many shops and open in the
:10:43. > :10:48.evening. That would be more of an incentive. If you think of something
:10:49. > :10:53.that would be a combination of Leicester Square and Oxford Street
:10:54. > :10:56.in London, that is what it is. Anne-Elisabeth, can you give us an
:10:57. > :11:02.idea of the scale of the operation that is underway at the moment? The
:11:03. > :11:06.incident itself didn't involve many people but now you've got police and
:11:07. > :11:15.Stanley Avenue, police in the side street and helicopters overhead. --
:11:16. > :11:22.you've got police along the Avenue. Every president, every mayor in
:11:23. > :11:26.Paris is aware that everyone in world knows about this Avenue so it
:11:27. > :11:31.is the place that is the most protected, it has Brazilians and
:11:32. > :11:34.people from outside the city and tourists, and weekends you have one
:11:35. > :11:40.third of a million people there every day. And you have the Ely is a
:11:41. > :11:45.palace which is just behind a row of trees just up the bottom of the
:11:46. > :11:50.Avenue, so that's many reasons for the place to be protected.
:11:51. > :11:54.Anne-Elisabeth, thank you very much, for the moment. We appreciate your
:11:55. > :11:59.help in covering this story. A couple of other things to share with
:12:00. > :12:03.you. A French Interior Ministry spokesperson said that the motives
:12:04. > :12:07.for the shooting are unknown. Bear in mind that message from the French
:12:08. > :12:12.interior ministry when I show you this wire that has come in from
:12:13. > :12:17.Reuters, President Trump has offered his condolences after the killing of
:12:18. > :12:21.a police officer, saying it looks like another terrorist act. Let's
:12:22. > :12:25.bring in Christian Fraser of the BBC in the Champs-Elysees. Just to
:12:26. > :12:34.reiterate, we don't know how to describe this at the moment, do we?
:12:35. > :12:39.No, we don't. I did see mobile phone footage from the Champs-Elysees,
:12:40. > :12:43.somebody running this we showed me and he showed me shots on the mobile
:12:44. > :12:50.phone because he had recorded them, I could not hear the sound because
:12:51. > :12:54.of the traffic that people were running in all directions, and as
:12:55. > :12:58.Anne-Elisabeth has just described, the police were on the scene very
:12:59. > :13:01.quickly. I can see just at the top of the Champs-Elysees armed police
:13:02. > :13:06.on both sides of the road. Hotels are just down that side of the
:13:07. > :13:14.Champs-Elysees is presumably people are being kept indoors. They are
:13:15. > :13:18.still making sure that there is no one out there. We see the helicopter
:13:19. > :13:21.going round the Champs-Elysees, just moments ago they turned the
:13:22. > :13:25.floodlight on the helicopter and they were pointing it down onto an
:13:26. > :13:36.area to the right-hand side of the Champs around the area of the George
:13:37. > :13:39.V Metro station. Police down the side streets, not all the side
:13:40. > :13:43.streets but keeping a wary eye on what is going on in this part of
:13:44. > :13:53.town. It is much quieter than it would normally be. It would be quite
:13:54. > :13:59.busy in this area, eight o'clock local time, and now you can only see
:14:00. > :14:04.a smattering of traffic which is normally very busy at this time is
:14:05. > :14:09.right. Please stay with us. Some other elements, CBS News has quoted
:14:10. > :14:13.President Trump saying this looks like another terrorist attack but
:14:14. > :14:24.we've had no confirmation from the authorities that it is.
:14:25. > :14:29.A counterterrorism office has opened an investigation but it is an
:14:30. > :14:35.investigation and no more, this is particularly relevant to those of
:14:36. > :14:38.you watching on the BBC News Channel, the British Embassy is in
:14:39. > :14:41.contact with local authorities and is seeking further information
:14:42. > :14:47.following the reports of this shooting incident in Paris.
:14:48. > :14:52.Christian, to come back to you, can you give us an idea for the viewers
:14:53. > :14:56.who are not watching about an hour ago of the sudden influx of
:14:57. > :15:06.emergency vehicles? It was very quick. We work broadcasting at about
:15:07. > :15:11.ten to eight. Suddenly from all directions police cars were coming
:15:12. > :15:16.towards us, unmarked police cars as well. The most dramatic moment at
:15:17. > :15:20.the foot of where we are broadcasting is that there's a sort
:15:21. > :15:23.of traffic light and a pedestrian crossing and a pedestrian almost got
:15:24. > :15:27.hit by a policeman who was driving as quickly as he could to get to the
:15:28. > :15:33.scene. Clearly a message had gone out on the radio that they needed to
:15:34. > :15:40.respond, we have seen the helicopter overhead for about the past hour,
:15:41. > :15:48.and very quickly as well. And also at the underpass. It is an area that
:15:49. > :15:53.people use to get to the other side of the Champs-Elysees. The policeman
:15:54. > :15:57.I spoke to, I said, what is going on and he didn't want to talk at all,
:15:58. > :16:02.you was very jumpy so obviously he knew something serious had happened
:16:03. > :16:07.to one of his colleagues. We were talking about terrorism as we would
:16:08. > :16:13.do in the context of like this. We were whether former Europe minister
:16:14. > :16:18.tonight. He came to do an interview with us for 100 Days. I knew his
:16:19. > :16:20.background, he was on the intelligence committee that wrote
:16:21. > :16:24.the intelligence legislation and I asked if he thought it might affect
:16:25. > :16:28.things this weekend. He said it certainly in the minds of some
:16:29. > :16:31.voters the terror threat is there and it might encourage some people
:16:32. > :16:38.to vote from Marine Le Pen but in the context of our question I am
:16:39. > :16:41.always intrigued about how severe the terror threat is. He said that
:16:42. > :16:48.from what he had seen there was something like 15,000 people in
:16:49. > :16:52.France that the security services need to watch. Not saying that they
:16:53. > :16:56.all severe threats but 15,000 people at any one time that have to be
:16:57. > :17:01.watched. And he said, whatever happens the other side of this
:17:02. > :17:05.election we need to step up our security and resources we have of
:17:06. > :17:09.the intelligence agencies so that they can keep track of these people.
:17:10. > :17:13.Christian, thank you, we will come back to you within the hour on
:17:14. > :17:19.Outside Source. If you are just joining us, there has been a
:17:20. > :17:22.shooting on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, one police officer has been
:17:23. > :17:25.killed, we don't know the motivation behind this incident. The reaction
:17:26. > :17:30.from Marine Le Pen, leader of the National front in France, one of the
:17:31. > :17:36.four main candidates to be the next president, she says in motion and
:17:37. > :17:43.solidarity for our security forces, again being targeted. In the most
:17:44. > :17:46.famous road in Paris, the Champs-Elysees, there is the Arc de
:17:47. > :17:51.Triomphe which we saw just behind Christian as he was talking to us,
:17:52. > :17:56.it runs away from that. The newswires are giving updates all the
:17:57. > :18:00.time on this story. APR says one police officer has been killed and
:18:01. > :18:08.another injured, and one attacker has been shot dead, according to the
:18:09. > :18:15.police. This is really important. The French interior minister says it
:18:16. > :18:20.is too early to say what the motive is for this attack. We are busy
:18:21. > :18:25.working on this story in the BBC newsroom in London, James Reynolds
:18:26. > :18:31.is in Paris, what else can you tell us, James? To recap what you have
:18:32. > :18:36.just said, Ros. Metro stations along the Champs-Elysees have been closed,
:18:37. > :18:40.entirely understandable, given the police presence on the
:18:41. > :18:43.Champs-Elysees. Like Christian Fraser we have heard the police
:18:44. > :18:47.helicopters overhead. We know that the police are in control of the
:18:48. > :18:51.roads next to the Champs-Elysees and to reiterate what Christian said,
:18:52. > :18:58.this still feels like a live operation. They need to identify who
:18:59. > :19:09.the attacker was. Was he known to the police, was involved in other
:19:10. > :19:14.activities? Were there any accomplices, this activity will have
:19:15. > :19:17.to go quickly before they can reassure people that this live
:19:18. > :19:22.operation is over. Would it have been normal for police officers to
:19:23. > :19:26.be on the Champs-Elysees on a regular evening? On some regular
:19:27. > :19:30.evenings, yes, given the context of the last few years, if you go down
:19:31. > :19:35.the Champs-Elysees at any point in the last few years you might well
:19:36. > :19:38.have seen police officers and possibly soldiers as well, this
:19:39. > :19:46.morning I saw police officers blocking one particular pathway down
:19:47. > :19:50.from the Arc de Triomphe. I have seen soldiers in camouflage on one
:19:51. > :19:55.side St today. You see them so often that you barely notice them any
:19:56. > :20:00.more. As I was out early in the evening and seen people running
:20:01. > :20:04.away, already in the distance I saw what looked like two sirens, just
:20:05. > :20:10.reiterating what Christian Fraser said, although he was in a different
:20:11. > :20:14.location, the police were on the scene quickly because they had been
:20:15. > :20:19.deployed along the Champs-Elysees in case anything like this happened.
:20:20. > :20:24.James, I want to bring up one newswire that has come into the BBC
:20:25. > :20:27.Newsline. Reuters is quoting a police source saying the gunman
:20:28. > :20:33.killed in the shooting was known to the security services. We have no
:20:34. > :20:34.more information on that but it is interesting, as the different
:20:35. > :20:40.politicians respond to this even before we know what has happened, it
:20:41. > :20:47.is becoming inevitably politicised. It is in the first few minutes when
:20:48. > :20:58.we were still not sure what was happening.
:20:59. > :21:03.As far as we can say, the politicians believe this was a
:21:04. > :21:08.terrorist attack. We need to be cautious and work out what the
:21:09. > :21:12.motivation is. I think it might be significant, especially of the
:21:13. > :21:15.police knew who this person was. The police have had a lot of people in
:21:16. > :21:22.France under surveillance for different reasons. They did know who
:21:23. > :21:26.this person was they might have been able to identify the motivations and
:21:27. > :21:32.importantly for French people, whether that person was connected to
:21:33. > :21:36.a wider network of people. I just want to show a couple of stills that
:21:37. > :21:41.have come into the BBC newsroom. This gives an idea of the operation
:21:42. > :21:48.taking place on the Champs-Elysees. We cannot emphasise this enough. It
:21:49. > :21:54.is too early to identify a motive in the Paris attack, although if we go
:21:55. > :22:00.back to the newswires, Donald Trump has been offering his condolences,
:22:01. > :22:06.after the killing of a police officer, saying that it looks like
:22:07. > :22:10.another terrorist attack. We have a clip of President Trump responding
:22:11. > :22:15.to this which I can play you now. Our condolences from this country to
:22:16. > :22:19.the people of France, again it has happened, I saw it as I was walking
:22:20. > :22:23.in. It is a terrible thing, a very very terrible thing going on in the
:22:24. > :22:29.world today but it looks like another terrorist attack and what
:22:30. > :22:33.can you say? It just never ends. We have to be strong and we have to be
:22:34. > :22:39.vigilant and I have been saying and for a long time. Back to James
:22:40. > :22:43.Reynolds in Paris. Just for people joining us are we certain that one
:22:44. > :22:54.police officer has lost their life? Off that is what the authorities say
:22:55. > :22:56.at this stage. In terms of what the authorities are saying, this is what
:22:57. > :23:06.they are broadcasting to the media, to the people in France. The picture
:23:07. > :23:12.that is being painted by the French interior ministry spokesperson is
:23:13. > :23:16.that there was a shooting near the Champs-Elysees, targeting lease
:23:17. > :23:24.officers, that needs to be confirmed, one officer was killed,
:23:25. > :23:28.we understand from broad reports broadcast on French TV that the
:23:29. > :23:33.attacker was killed. Recent reports suggest that the attacker was known
:23:34. > :23:36.at the police. That could be very significant in helping police
:23:37. > :23:40.analyse the motivation and the network, if any, of the attacker.
:23:41. > :23:45.James, for the moment, thank you. We will come back to you in the next
:23:46. > :23:49.few minutes on Outside Source. That has been political reaction to what
:23:50. > :24:01.has happened in Paris, the Socialist candidate says, my thoughts are with
:24:02. > :24:06.the family of the policeman, Benoit Hamon using the word terrorism.
:24:07. > :24:11.Marine Le Pen saying, emotion and solidarity for our security forces
:24:12. > :24:16.again targeted. Back to Christian Fraser. Some newswires say there
:24:17. > :24:23.have been further gunshots. What more can you tell us? More shots
:24:24. > :24:25.have been fired near the Champs-Elysees, see news reports,
:24:26. > :24:39.although we have not heard them here. Francois Hollande has been in
:24:40. > :24:43.the presidential headquarters, wanting to call his senior ministers
:24:44. > :24:50.to talk about what has happened. The French newspaper Anne-Elisabeth
:24:51. > :24:54.Moutet says the attacker stopped near the Champs-Elysees, got out,
:24:55. > :24:58.shot at the police officers and was shot as he ran away. As James said
:24:59. > :25:02.we still get the sense, watching the helicopter and the activity around
:25:03. > :25:06.the area at the moment that there still is a live police operation
:25:07. > :25:10.under way. I am not sure that they are certain that there isn't someone
:25:11. > :25:14.else they are looking for. If those reports are true, and do bear in
:25:15. > :25:17.mind that people are pretty jumpy up the moment, so any loud noises
:25:18. > :25:24.people might well jump to conclusions about, but according to
:25:25. > :25:28.Reuters there have been other shots fired near the Champs-Elysees. And
:25:29. > :25:32.sifting through the information coming in. It's difficult to work
:25:33. > :25:38.out if we are talking about one person acting alone or two or three
:25:39. > :25:42.people. What have you heard? Only what you are hearing at the moment,
:25:43. > :25:48.which is that one police officer may have lost his life and another may
:25:49. > :25:52.have been injured. One of the attackers may have been killed. Let
:25:53. > :25:57.me show you something that we witnessed when we were standing here
:25:58. > :26:04.broadcasting with you a little earlier. Can you see this on the
:26:05. > :26:12.computer? This was a bus parked on the other side of Etoile. It was
:26:13. > :26:15.going around the roundabout and suddenly the police cars surrounded
:26:16. > :26:20.the bus and stopped it. I don't know what they thought was on it, there
:26:21. > :26:24.were plenty of buses around but this one they had a particular focus on.
:26:25. > :26:31.They pulled everyone who was on the bus off. They had their body armour
:26:32. > :26:36.on, they were armed police, heavily armed police surrounding it, and it
:26:37. > :26:41.was therefore probably about half an hour to one hour before the bus
:26:42. > :26:46.moved off. Does that tell us that they were looking for someone else?
:26:47. > :26:50.I don't know because they had shot the attacker on the Champs-Elysees
:26:51. > :26:53.according to the reports we've heard but if they stopped this bus is
:26:54. > :26:59.possible they thought that someone else was on the run and maybe that
:27:00. > :27:04.person had got onto a bus at the top of the Champs-Elysees and was trying
:27:05. > :27:08.to get away from the scene, it was interesting that they picked on that
:27:09. > :27:11.particular bus. Thank you, Christian. There has been a shooting
:27:12. > :27:17.on the Champs-Elysees in the centre of Paris. These are live pictures.
:27:18. > :27:21.The Reuters news agency says shots have been fired at a new location
:27:22. > :27:26.near the Champs-Elysees. That's according to a police source. The
:27:27. > :27:31.police have said that one police officer has lost their life and
:27:32. > :27:34.another has been injured. The French interior ministry has emphasised
:27:35. > :27:39.explicitly that they do not know the motivation behind what happened on
:27:40. > :27:43.the Champs-Elysees. Just to highlight to those of you watching,
:27:44. > :27:51.many of you will know this very famous avenue, right in the centre
:27:52. > :27:57.of Paris with the Arc de Triomphe at one end of it. Let's speak to
:27:58. > :28:03.Christian Fraser again. We talked about the political context of this,
:28:04. > :28:06.the other context is the fact that Paris has experienced many traumas
:28:07. > :28:13.involving attacks in the last 18 months. I think it has an
:28:14. > :28:17.accumulative effect on the population in Paris especially on a
:28:18. > :28:22.night like this. It was interesting as an observer to watch how people
:28:23. > :28:30.reacted to what was going on. As soon as police started going in one
:28:31. > :28:35.direction, we saw a group of youngsters who had come to look at
:28:36. > :28:40.the eternal flame and they were told to clear Etoile as quickly as they
:28:41. > :28:43.could and immediately they panicked. Maybe the rumour of gunshots had
:28:44. > :28:46.gone around, but they started running everywhere and it was
:28:47. > :28:51.difficult for the police to control them and keep everyone calm.
:28:52. > :28:56.Everyone jumps to the same conclusion because they have bitter
:28:57. > :29:02.experience of previous attacks. It is not only the Charlie Hebdo attack
:29:03. > :29:04.and the Bataclan attack which were horrendous, but peppered through
:29:05. > :29:10.those months there have been countless attacks on the police. And
:29:11. > :29:14.according to the French media wires that I can see, they claimed the
:29:15. > :29:28.police were specifically targeted in this attack. We've seen policemen
:29:29. > :29:31.before stabbed from behind, in La Defense, while protecting the
:29:32. > :29:34.public, they are conscious that they are targets for someone who might
:29:35. > :29:39.come up behind them and they don't expect it to try to hurt one of them
:29:40. > :29:45.and kill one of them. It sounds as if it might have been the case
:29:46. > :29:49.tonight. Christian, thank you. For those viewers just joining us, let's
:29:50. > :29:53.remind ourselves of what is happening. There's been a shooting
:29:54. > :29:58.in the Champs-Elysees in the centre of Paris, one police officer has
:29:59. > :30:00.lost his or her life, the authorities say another has been
:30:01. > :30:05.wounded. There are other elements to the story which we can bring you.
:30:06. > :30:11.Some of which are confirmed, others not. This is the Reuters news agency
:30:12. > :30:15.picking up on what Christian said. There are reports that shots had
:30:16. > :30:19.been fired at a new location near the Champs-Elysees, according to one
:30:20. > :30:25.police source speaking to Reuters. Know the political reaction as well.
:30:26. > :30:26.Remember it is round one of the French presidential election on
:30:27. > :30:59.Sunday. His use of the word terrorism is
:31:00. > :31:03.significant because over the last hour, the French Interior Ministry
:31:04. > :31:07.has emphasised we do not know the nature of this attack. I want to
:31:08. > :31:16.bring up a couple of other newswires coming into the BBC newsroom.
:31:17. > :31:20.Reuters quoting a police source, say a second policeman has died from
:31:21. > :31:26.wounds of the Paris shootings. We knew that one person had lost their
:31:27. > :31:29.life. According to Reuters, we do not have this confirmed, but they
:31:30. > :31:33.had been correct on all the other elements of the story so far,
:31:34. > :31:40.reporting a second policeman has lost their life. The nearby stations
:31:41. > :31:45.to the Paris Metro had been closed and we can bring in the BBC's
:31:46. > :31:52.Christian Fraser again. In terms of what is happening in and around...
:31:53. > :32:00.Hi, Christian. I am just watching the helicopter. Apart from the
:32:01. > :32:05.Champs-Elysees itself, are people able to move around within the area
:32:06. > :32:10.quite easily? Yes, but there are not a lot of people. A public
:32:11. > :32:16.announcement has gone out, urging people to stay away from the
:32:17. > :32:21.Champs-Elysees. That seems to have been led by people in this area.
:32:22. > :32:28.There are very few people on the pavements at the moment. The people
:32:29. > :32:33.are being directed from other areas, directed away from the
:32:34. > :32:37.Champs-Elysees. I can still see, down the Champs-Elysees, there are
:32:38. > :32:40.armed police in prominent positions up and down the Champs-Elysees, near
:32:41. > :32:44.some of the restaurants and hotels. What I do not know is whether people
:32:45. > :32:47.have been allowed to leave restaurants or whether they had been
:32:48. > :32:53.kept in place until they are absolutely sure there is no one
:32:54. > :32:58.still out there. But still a lot of police activity going on. You can
:32:59. > :33:04.probably see some of the flashing blue lights. They moved from the
:33:05. > :33:09.underpass, they have left the scene at the moment, maybe they had been
:33:10. > :33:13.moved forward onto the Champs-Elysees, but generally it is
:33:14. > :33:17.reasonably quiet and secure now. The helicopter appears to have moved to
:33:18. > :33:20.a different part of the city, it is not circulating around the
:33:21. > :33:24.Champs-Elysees for the moment. All the while we are talking, more
:33:25. > :33:28.information is coming in. Let's bring more of that for you.
:33:29. > :33:33.According to a police source talking to Reuters, police are searching the
:33:34. > :33:41.home of the person who carried out the attack on the Champs-Elysees. We
:33:42. > :33:45.have also seen wire copy coming in that the authorities are saying this
:33:46. > :33:49.person was known the authorities. This is also relevant, this from
:33:50. > :33:54.Reuters will stop the counterterrorism office open an
:33:55. > :33:58.investigation into the shooting, one of the gunmen was killed in the
:33:59. > :34:02.attack was known to the security forces. That phrase, one of the
:34:03. > :34:05.gunmen, is interesting because there is a huge amount of uncertainty
:34:06. > :34:10.around whether this attack was carried out by one person or more.
:34:11. > :34:15.Some reports have said one, other have said more. They cannot be
:34:16. > :34:19.certain at all at the moment. If you are just joining us, many of you
:34:20. > :34:23.watching will have been to Paris, and you will certainly have been to
:34:24. > :34:30.the Champs-Elysees. We have the Arc de Triomphe and the road comes away
:34:31. > :34:37.from that to the east. It is one of the most famous roads and do world.
:34:38. > :34:41.One journalist who lived closest to the Champs-Elysees, they said even
:34:42. > :34:45.in the evening this would've been incredibly busy. Let's update you on
:34:46. > :34:52.a couple of other elements to the story. We have heard Francois Fillon
:34:53. > :34:57.paying tribute to the security forces. As we were discussing, even
:34:58. > :35:02.though we do not know the very nature of this attack, already it is
:35:03. > :35:05.becoming politicised the different candidates for the presidency
:35:06. > :35:12.offering their condolences and, in some cases, their thoughts about
:35:13. > :35:18.what has happened. Let's bring in a security expert. Thank you for your
:35:19. > :35:21.time. With a story and situation unfolding like this, what will be
:35:22. > :35:27.the priorities of the security forces on the Champs-Elysees? One of
:35:28. > :35:33.the key issues will be to try to control information that will be
:35:34. > :35:38.circulating around, and it will be to try to gather as much evidence as
:35:39. > :35:42.they possibly can, again in peace times when most of us will have some
:35:43. > :35:47.kind of camera within our phones. They will try to get as much
:35:48. > :35:51.evidence as they can, particularly as reports are led to believe. One
:35:52. > :35:59.of the gunmen potentially is on the run. In terms of communication with
:36:00. > :36:03.the concerned public, presumably that has to remain a priority, even
:36:04. > :36:10.though the police may not know exactly what is happening? No,
:36:11. > :36:15.absolutely. They're in mind what a cosmopolitan city Paris is, much
:36:16. > :36:19.like London when we had the Westminster attack recently, there
:36:20. > :36:24.will try to get the that not only to the local residents, but also all
:36:25. > :36:33.foreign visitors. The Champs-Elysees is such a representative sight of
:36:34. > :36:38.Paris, and this is the ideal target particularly by some terrorist
:36:39. > :36:44.affiliated groups because it is the capital and internationally
:36:45. > :36:50.recognised. Police will control this local area as much as possible,
:36:51. > :36:55.particularly as there may be other strands to this. One cannot presume
:36:56. > :37:01.there isn't these days. They will control people indoors and the local
:37:02. > :37:07.areas and then ultimately making sure other people do not come into
:37:08. > :37:13.this catchment area. Stay with us. Earlier, I mentioned that we had
:37:14. > :37:16.potential reports of another shooting close to the
:37:17. > :37:20.Champs-Elysees. Paris police have confirmed to the BBC that that
:37:21. > :37:28.reporter for the gunfire was a force report. People were claiming there
:37:29. > :37:32.were further gunshots. Since we have contacted the resume police who have
:37:33. > :37:41.said that was a force report. Will, it highlights the amount of
:37:42. > :37:46.disinformation and in misinformation the authorities are sifting through.
:37:47. > :37:50.Absolutely. One only has to look at Twitter a look at the various
:37:51. > :37:55.reports coming in from different sources. Even the BBC will resort to
:37:56. > :38:01.Twitter to try to gather as much information as they can. News
:38:02. > :38:05.agencies like yourself has a bigger job as the police do, sifting
:38:06. > :38:09.through information, following up on reports, and it is not uncommon that
:38:10. > :38:15.we will hear of simultaneous attacks or other reports of attacks within
:38:16. > :38:21.proximity or possibly close by, and again this could be from a variety
:38:22. > :38:25.of different elements, it could be from individuals who heard the
:38:26. > :38:29.initial attacks, and particularly in a city where sound can travel
:38:30. > :38:33.extensively, it can be leading to greater levels of concern. This is
:38:34. > :38:38.why the authorities will need to come up with a formal statement
:38:39. > :38:41.pretty quickly to again reassure the general public that they have
:38:42. > :38:48.control of the situation. One further question, we all being told
:38:49. > :38:52.this attack was known to the authorities. In those circumstances
:38:53. > :38:56.presumably they are able to move much faster in investigating.
:38:57. > :39:01.Absolutely. The French had been playing catch-up game since some of
:39:02. > :39:07.the earlier attacks, particularly Charlie Hebdo, which was a wake-up
:39:08. > :39:12.call for them. But because quite a few of the notable attacks in the
:39:13. > :39:14.last year or so have come from a variety of different areas, the
:39:15. > :39:20.concern right now is that ultimately, they need to have
:39:21. > :39:26.immediate triggers of any particular names to ensure that if they do
:39:27. > :39:29.recognise is a perpetrator's name, they can follow that lead very
:39:30. > :39:36.quickly. We appreciate your time, thank you very much for joining us.
:39:37. > :39:44.In the last few minutes, I have brought you there is political
:39:45. > :39:47.reactions. The far left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon saying, my
:39:48. > :39:55.thoughts to the police and their families. Jean-Luc Melenchon
:39:56. > :40:02.describing this as a terrorist act while the authorities are saying
:40:03. > :40:09.they did not know the motivation. Let me check again, the news wires
:40:10. > :40:14.coming in here. President Armand is holding a crisis meeting with the
:40:15. > :40:17.Prime Minister and interior Minister as you would expect with a situation
:40:18. > :40:29.like this unfolding. Here is what one eyewitness had to say. We were
:40:30. > :40:32.moving towards a car and then I heard two or three shots but I did
:40:33. > :40:37.not realise they were shots to start with. Then there was panic all
:40:38. > :40:40.around, everyone started running down the Champs-Elysees by instinct.
:40:41. > :40:46.I did not stop to work out what was going on, I just ran. Police were
:40:47. > :40:50.already in place, blocking the road with the trucks, I took shelter
:40:51. > :40:54.behind them. I did not have time to do anything other than just run
:40:55. > :41:00.away. The French Interior Ministry... It is saying they are
:41:01. > :41:04.assessing the vehicle of the assailant with regards to the attack
:41:05. > :41:11.on the Champs-Elysees. It can also show you some of the Stills coming
:41:12. > :41:14.in of the police operation underway. Particularly because of what has
:41:15. > :41:19.happened in Paris over the last couple of years, the response to
:41:20. > :41:27.this incident has been considerable, as you would expect. Let's bring
:41:28. > :41:34.back Ken James in Paris. Please bring us date with what you have
:41:35. > :41:38.got. I want to repeat a report on the Reuters news agency, suggesting
:41:39. > :41:43.police are carrying out a search at the attacker's home east of Paris.
:41:44. > :41:46.In the last 30 or 40 minutes, we have brought you those reports,
:41:47. > :41:51.suggesting they knew who the suspected attacker was. Those
:41:52. > :41:55.reports have developed and suggest the police are carrying out a search
:41:56. > :41:59.of the person's house. It is important because they will want to
:42:00. > :42:04.work at exactly who he was, why he might have carried out this attack
:42:05. > :42:08.and whether or not he was working with any others. In that last
:42:09. > :42:13.question is critical, as the police try to work out if it is over or if
:42:14. > :42:16.there are other people they need to go look for. We had this interesting
:42:17. > :42:21.situation with the police are saying, we did not know what is
:42:22. > :42:27.behind this attack, the already very high profile politicians are calling
:42:28. > :42:32.it an act of terrorism. Yes, and you can almost imagine politicians
:42:33. > :42:36.thinking there is no harm in condemning terrorism as soon as they
:42:37. > :42:41.hear of an attack on the police, it does them no harm even if it turns
:42:42. > :42:45.out the attack had other motives. Very early on after we had the
:42:46. > :42:50.report, there was one initial report from the police suggesting it was a
:42:51. > :42:54.terrorist attack. There are suggestions it might possibly be a
:42:55. > :42:58.robbery. We have not seen anything further than that because at the
:42:59. > :43:04.moment, there are reports that the man was known to the police only.
:43:05. > :43:07.Let me bring you another few updates. The Prime Minister has
:43:08. > :43:12.taken to Twitter to pay tribute to the policeman killed in the attack
:43:13. > :43:15.tonight, falls to his family and solidarity with the injured
:43:16. > :43:22.colleagues and relatives. To reiterate to you, we have heard from
:43:23. > :43:24.Donald Trump as well, who was offered his condolences to the
:43:25. > :43:29.people of France after the killing of the police officer in Paris,
:43:30. > :43:34.saying it looks like another terrorist act. Donald Trump has been
:43:35. > :43:38.meeting the leader of Italy. We were expecting to be covering the joint
:43:39. > :43:42.press conference but that's not happened for obvious reasons, but
:43:43. > :43:46.Donald Trump is offering his condolences to the people of France
:43:47. > :43:53.because of a terrorist act let's bring in James again. We talked
:43:54. > :43:57.earlier that the authorities had said one person had died, Voigt is
:43:58. > :44:01.then carried a report saying a second police officer had died, are
:44:02. > :44:08.we able to confirm that yet? I am reading something I have seen on
:44:09. > :44:14.social media. Second police officer has succumbed to his wounds. Those
:44:15. > :44:18.reports coming from various police federations, saying there is a
:44:19. > :44:22.second police officer who has been killed. We have not yet heard that
:44:23. > :44:27.from the government, the Interior Ministry, and as French people know
:44:28. > :44:31.all too well, it is the Interior Ministry to whom they have to turn
:44:32. > :44:36.the term for updates on nights or days like this. Tell us about the
:44:37. > :44:41.Champs-Elysees. If anyone wants to drive up it, can the? They can.
:44:42. > :44:45.Earlier today, when I was coming in from the airport, it was very
:44:46. > :44:50.difficult to get down from the Arc de Triomphe. We had to use side
:44:51. > :44:54.roads because the police had blocked off one Particular Rd heading down
:44:55. > :44:59.from the Arc de Triomphe which caused a lot of traffic jams. It
:45:00. > :45:05.would not have been easy to get down from one side to another but later
:45:06. > :45:09.on, I saw traffic going in both directions and I did not notice...
:45:10. > :45:12.It would been unheard of to have checkpoints on either side of the
:45:13. > :45:16.Champs-Elysees. If there was an attacker who wanted to drive along
:45:17. > :45:20.the Champs-Elysees and then find police officers on either side of
:45:21. > :45:25.the road, that would've been doable. In terms of how many people carried
:45:26. > :45:30.this attack out, one person was involved, do we have any indication
:45:31. > :45:36.as to whether they acted alone or with help? We do not we will
:45:37. > :45:40.remember what you were speaking to Christian about, when he was talking
:45:41. > :45:44.about the police surrounding a bus. That gives you an indication of the
:45:45. > :45:47.instinct the police will have on the minutes after an attack, where they
:45:48. > :45:51.will not just think this person was alone, they will look anyone in the
:45:52. > :45:57.area and try to identify the person and find out who his network of
:45:58. > :46:01.people, supporters, may have been. We do not have any indication do at
:46:02. > :46:06.this stage whether or not the attacker was driving with anyone
:46:07. > :46:13.else or whether he was alone. James, for the moment, thank you very much
:46:14. > :46:17.for your help again. I'm live in London, where a story has been
:46:18. > :46:22.developing over the last 90 minutes or so. Let me reiterate where we
:46:23. > :46:27.have got to. There has been a shooting on the Champs-Elysees in
:46:28. > :46:34.Paris, the city's most famous street and arguably France's. One police
:46:35. > :46:38.officer has lost his life. We did have a statement from a police union
:46:39. > :46:42.and there is a separate police source saying a second police
:46:43. > :46:47.officer has lost his life but we're not able to confirm that at the
:46:48. > :46:52.moment. High-profile politicians and France have referred to this as an
:46:53. > :46:55.act of terrorism, however the French interior minister is saying, we do
:46:56. > :47:03.not know the motivation behind this attack. There is one person involved
:47:04. > :47:06.that they have been reports of extra people being involved. However,
:47:07. > :47:10.quite often in developing stories like this, you get reports of extra
:47:11. > :47:14.people being involved and it does not prove to be the case, so we
:47:15. > :47:22.cannot confirm if anyone was involved beyond that single
:47:23. > :47:26.attacker. If we go in closer, we can see the Arctic Triomphe where we
:47:27. > :47:31.were talking to Christian Fraser, and the attack took place in the
:47:32. > :47:36.Champs-Elysees to the east. Throughout the hour, more
:47:37. > :47:40.information has been coming through. We have plugged back into the BBC
:47:41. > :47:47.newsroom to access all the latest information. All the stations nearby
:47:48. > :47:56.to wear this attack is taken place have been closed. Police are also
:47:57. > :48:02.warning people not to spread any misinformation that has not come
:48:03. > :48:07.from a trusted source save the authorities. Also, the
:48:08. > :48:13.counterterrorism officers have offered an investigation into the
:48:14. > :48:17.shooting. You will notice this wire from Reuters talks about gunmen,
:48:18. > :48:21.we're not sure whether it was a gunman or gunmen, but one person has
:48:22. > :48:28.been killed. According to a police source, speaking to the authorities.
:48:29. > :48:33.A couple of other things to mention here. Donald Trump has come out and
:48:34. > :48:37.offered his condolences to France over what has happened, saying, it
:48:38. > :48:43.looks like another terrorist attack. James has been helping us from the
:48:44. > :48:46.newsroom of the BBC in Paris. Christian was just by the
:48:47. > :48:51.Champs-Elysees. We spoke to him on Outside Source when it was not clear
:48:52. > :48:57.when this story was developing, but we are clear now it has happened. Is
:48:58. > :49:04.is still ongoing? Do we know if this is a live situation? There are a lot
:49:05. > :49:10.of conflicting reports so I do not want to put information at the that
:49:11. > :49:12.might not stand up but there are reports quoting police sources that
:49:13. > :49:17.there is another attack of are looking for. I have just seen
:49:18. > :49:22.footage sent to me by people who are in Paris of what looks to be the
:49:23. > :49:27.immediate aftermath of the shooting, and you can see the police van in
:49:28. > :49:32.the car that was pulled up right alongside it, and what you picture
:49:33. > :49:37.in the image is a police man putting his gun down on the pavement as if
:49:38. > :49:42.they just just killed the attacker had just literally come upon them.
:49:43. > :49:48.We are also hearing from various news reports, unconfirmed, two
:49:49. > :49:52.policeman had been killed but they are also saying the third one had
:49:53. > :50:01.been injured. Maybe there were three is part of a small group. But it is
:50:02. > :50:06.halfway down the Champs-Elysees in a very busy area of the street. We are
:50:07. > :50:12.also hearing as you confirm the night that this attack was known to
:50:13. > :50:20.the intelligence services. If they are known to them, then we are
:50:21. > :50:25.starting to move toward someone to would've been known to the
:50:26. > :50:30.anti-terrorist police, and it is a very strange thing to get out of a
:50:31. > :50:34.car and start shooting at police officers if you will carry out an
:50:35. > :50:38.armed robbery, said this might be why politicians are starting to step
:50:39. > :50:47.over to this area that this might have been a specific attack aimed at
:50:48. > :50:54.police officers. There are also reports focusing on the TV report,
:50:55. > :50:59.they are saying that there was social media from the gunmen, saying
:51:00. > :51:03.he wanted to attack police officers. All of that will be part of the
:51:04. > :51:09.focus in the next 12 hours. But as James said, this will be an ongoing
:51:10. > :51:15.police operation right up until the election now because, whether or not
:51:16. > :51:18.there is one attack or two, that person would be known to other
:51:19. > :51:21.people, that is why they are searching the property and they will
:51:22. > :51:25.want to know who that person has been in contact with over the last
:51:26. > :51:32.few days, and is the threat from the people but that person new? If it is
:51:33. > :51:38.not focused on the other attacker that might have got away. It is
:51:39. > :51:44.worth reiterating that the reason Christian is in Paris is to cover
:51:45. > :51:48.the French election. It is the first round on Sunday, and Christian is
:51:49. > :51:53.there, but as Christian just pointed out, the remainder of the campaign
:51:54. > :51:57.is likely to be dominated by what is happening in Paris. A little while
:51:58. > :52:00.ago, I was talking to James, we were both saying we have these
:52:01. > :52:04.unconfirmed reports that second police officer had lost his life. We
:52:05. > :52:08.have been cautious about that because even though news agencies
:52:09. > :52:14.were putting out there, we were not able to confirm that. The reason we
:52:15. > :52:17.were being cautious is because the French Interior Ministry
:52:18. > :52:21.spokesperson said a second police officer is not dead, they are
:52:22. > :52:25.telling us that two police officers are seriously wounded, and this
:52:26. > :52:29.highlights the amount of information flying around on how you have to be
:52:30. > :52:32.cautious about it. The French interior Ministry saying a second
:52:33. > :52:39.police officer has not lost his life but that two police officers are
:52:40. > :52:44.seriously wounded. One police officer has died. I also want to
:52:45. > :52:47.show you this. A spokesperson saying they cannot exclude that there were
:52:48. > :52:52.one or more attackers but again that comes back to what I was saying. We
:52:53. > :52:57.have had multiple reports, some saying it it was someone acting
:52:58. > :53:02.alone, some saying there were more than one person involved, nor it
:53:03. > :53:07.seems at the moment, can be Interior Ministry be sure. Let's go back to
:53:08. > :53:11.Christian. You know Paris very well that many people watching will not
:53:12. > :53:16.been to Paris. What is the Champs-Elysees like at this time of
:53:17. > :53:23.the evening of people been doing the? They would be going on a
:53:24. > :53:27.promenade. People come out to walk up and down the street and take on
:53:28. > :53:33.the sites and meet people, go to the shops. The people who have never
:53:34. > :53:40.been here, it is very much like Oxford Street or Regent's Street. It
:53:41. > :53:45.is a very big pavement. You could have 20 or 30 people deep at any one
:53:46. > :53:49.time. I walked up there the night and it was really busy because it is
:53:50. > :53:53.that sort of night where people can sit out on the terraces of cafes,
:53:54. > :53:57.bright blue skies, everyone was enjoying the sunshine this evening,
:53:58. > :54:05.and at that time in the evening when it happened, at around 8:50pm local
:54:06. > :54:09.time, that would be peak tourist time, but just how quickly the
:54:10. > :54:13.situation changed was extraordinary. We will broadcasting at the foot of
:54:14. > :54:18.the building here, talking to you. First one police car and then
:54:19. > :54:25.another, and then they came from all directions. Where to go out on the
:54:26. > :54:29.police radio, it was police cars and ambulances, an unmarked police cars,
:54:30. > :54:34.in such a tearing hurry to get to the Champs-Elysees to find out what
:54:35. > :54:39.was going on and perhaps helped colleagues, they almost knocked down
:54:40. > :54:43.pedestrians, it was bedlam for five or ten minutes. I sure do those
:54:44. > :54:51.pictures. This picture of the bus that was suddenly surrounded on the
:54:52. > :54:59.12 by probably seven or eight police cars. Armed police jumped out. You
:55:00. > :55:01.can see them with their prizes on. They got everybody of this boss and
:55:02. > :55:04.it was clear to me they thought someone was on that bus who might
:55:05. > :55:09.have got away from the Champs-Elysees because there were
:55:10. > :55:14.other buses going around but this particular boss was a focus for
:55:15. > :55:17.attention. I do not know why, but it suggests to me they thought there
:55:18. > :55:22.was somebody who might have been connected to the attack on that bus,
:55:23. > :55:29.trying to leave the scene. Right now, it is reasonably quiet. We are
:55:30. > :55:32.hearing some reports there is an ongoing operation around the
:55:33. > :55:40.Champs-Elysees. The focus seems to be in eastern Paris in a building
:55:41. > :55:43.they know to be connected with this attacker and they will hope to glean
:55:44. > :55:47.as much intelligence from that as they can over the coming hours to
:55:48. > :55:51.avoid any repeat of what has happened this evening. I have one
:55:52. > :55:55.more question for you about politics. Let me show everyone
:55:56. > :55:59.watching the response we have seen from the four people who have a
:56:00. > :56:03.realistic chance of becoming the next French president. There are 11
:56:04. > :56:07.candidates but realistically only four have a prospect of getting
:56:08. > :56:12.through round one and into the final round which is a head-to-head. We
:56:13. > :56:20.have heard from awful. Emmanuel Macron says, I want to show all my
:56:21. > :56:24.solidarity with our law enforcement. Francois Fillon says, the picture be
:56:25. > :56:29.to the security forces who give their lives to protect ours.
:56:30. > :56:34.Jean-Luc Melenchon said, thoughts for the police dead and injured,
:56:35. > :56:45.terrorist acts never go unpunished. And then Marina pen, who has been
:56:46. > :56:50.leading the polls for the last few weeks, says, emotion and solidarity
:56:51. > :56:56.for our security forces again being targeted. That phrase from Marine Le
:56:57. > :57:00.Pen highlights a big issue she has emphasised throughout this campaign
:57:01. > :57:06.which you feel that front is not getting it security right. A lot of
:57:07. > :57:11.candidates will focus on that and the need for more resources for the
:57:12. > :57:18.intelligence services. I was talking to a Europe Minister tonight, and
:57:19. > :57:22.outward looking liberal guy, who is supporting Francois Fillon, he says
:57:23. > :57:26.the threat is severe in France. He says there are 15,000 people in
:57:27. > :57:30.France that need to be watched, and clearly you cannot watch all those
:57:31. > :57:37.people were any one time. So, yes, there will a debate in France about
:57:38. > :57:40.providing more resources for the security services, but surely there
:57:41. > :57:44.also has to be a conversation about the division in French society. They
:57:45. > :57:52.talk about the gulf between inner-city Paris and the urban
:57:53. > :57:59.centres like this, and its housing and opportunities and opportunities
:58:00. > :58:02.for migrant communities that underscore and create this division
:58:03. > :58:06.in French society, and that has to be looked at as part of the
:58:07. > :58:13.political debate as well. Christian, thank you very much for your help
:58:14. > :58:18.over the last hour. Let's recap what we have learnt in the last hour. One
:58:19. > :58:21.police officer has lost his life after being shot in the
:58:22. > :58:25.Champs-Elysees. The person who carried out the attack has been shot
:58:26. > :58:29.dead but it is not clear if he or she was acting alone but the French
:58:30. > :58:34.interior ministry is denying reports a second police officer has died,
:58:35. > :58:39.but they are telling us two police officers are seriously wounded.
:58:40. > :58:44.These pictures are live from Paris at the moment. You can see various
:58:45. > :58:48.personnel going over that particular vehicle in great detail. That
:58:49. > :58:53.matches what we were told a few minutes ago, that one particular
:58:54. > :58:58.vehicle was being focused on. Let's check on one last time nor the
:58:59. > :59:04.latest information coming in to the BBC newsroom. Very interesting from
:59:05. > :59:10.Reuters. Police have issued an arrest warrant for a second suspect
:59:11. > :59:14.in the shooting who arrived from Belgium by train. If that is true,
:59:15. > :59:23.that changes the nature of the story we are talking about. That is just a
:59:24. > :59:27.police source speaking to Reuters. Then we have the French interior
:59:28. > :59:31.Ministry spokesperson saying that they cannot exclude that there were
:59:32. > :59:36.one or more attackers. While there is more and more information coming
:59:37. > :59:42.in as to what happened in central Paris this evening, a lot of things
:59:43. > :59:47.remain unknown, not just the journalists covering the story, but
:59:48. > :59:49.the authorities as well. This is a developing situation in Paris and
:59:50. > :59:54.you will get the very latest from all of us here in the BBC newsroom.
:59:55. > :59:59.Coverage continues over the next few minutes. Goodbye.