A member of the French elite RAID police unit was injured and one attacker was killed in a shootout on a highway in the Côte d'Or department in the east of the country, BFMTV reported.
According to him, two police officers stopped a car with British license plates for inspection as part of an operation against a gang involved in organizing illegal migration of Kurds from Iraq.
As the patrol approached, the people in the car “opened fire on the police with automatic weapons“. The police “returned fire”, the television channel reported. During the shootout, one police officer was wounded in the leg and one of the suspects was killed. Four other people in the car tried to flee the scene.
Three of the four suspects have been arrested. Another attacker is being sought, the report said.