Picture of possible US marine wounded person from #thalys #shooting #arras #france pic.twitter.com/MqzJL8r4BC
— Dutch Osint Guy (@DutchOsintGuy) August 21, 2015
‘North-African origin’…
Via Telegraph:
A man has been arrested after firing a Kalashnikov rifle on board an Amsterdam-Paris train, according to French media.
Le Parisien reports that a Briton and an American are “seriously” wounded.
A third person, the French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, was also wounded and is said to have raised the alarm.
La Voix du Nord, a newspaper in the Calais region, said a man was arrested on suspicion of firing the weapon on a Thalys train near the northern town of Arras.
Police say that have not ruled out terrorism as a possible motive and Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, has been summoned to the region.
The gunman, said to be of “North African origin,” is said to have been “taken down” by a group of US marines onboard the train.According to Voix du Nord, the marines heard what appeared to be the sound of a gun being loaded coming from the toilets on the train.
They tried to detain him and the man fired, wounding three people, two of whom were struck by bullets, the newspaper reported.
A man “aged between 30 to 40,” who was “seriously injured but conscious,” was evacuated from the station at 6.50pm, it added.
#Video footage of arrest #gunman #thalys #france #arras pic.twitter.com/N68WXxqf3Z
— Dutch Osint Guy (@DutchOsintGuy) August 21, 2015
Picture of #suspect #thalys #arras shooter being arrested pic.twitter.com/9kItmpd1jH
— Dutch Osint Guy (@DutchOsintGuy) August 21, 2015
Here’s the guy being held on the ground:
Update:
AFP is reporting that he is believed to be of Moroccan origin, known to intelligence services (translation: terrorist).
Police recovered at least six full magazines from the gunman’s backpack, thank God for the Marines, or this would have been a massacre:
The shooting actually occurred while the train was passing through Belgium. The Belgium PM calls it:
