Via Daily Mail:
Hooded gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs have fired at police in the French city of Marseille, where the country’s Prime Minister was due to visit later today.
The Castellane neighbourhood of the southern port city is now under lock down, including schools and colleges and a kindergarten after witnesses say they saw men in balaclavas firing weapons towards officers.’
The director for public safety, Pierre-Marie Bourniquel, told local media that shots were fired at a police vehicle, narrowly missing it.’
It comes as the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was due in Marseille later today to talk about security as crime levels in the city have dropped.
He had not yet arrived in the city before the shooting, and it is thought he will still go ahead with his visit.
Referring to today’s attack, a police source said: ‘Shots were fired at police vehicles’.