Photographer Critical after Shooting at French Daily
A photographer was left fighting for his life Monday after being shot by an intruder at the Paris offices of left-wing French daily Liberation, police and the newspaper said.
The victim was shot in the chest and stomach with a pump-action shotgun and was in a critical condition, they said, adding that the shooter had fled the scene.
The shooting came three days after a man stormed into the Paris headquarters of news channel BFMTV brandishing a shotgun and warned a senior editor: "Next time, I will not miss you."
Police are investigating a possible link between the two incidents.
Liberation executive Nicolas Demorand said the attack had left staff horrified.
"When you have someone with a shotgun coming into a newspaper's offices in a democracy, it is very, very serious, whatever the mental state of the person," Demorand told Agence France Presse.
"If papers and other media have to become bunkers, something has gone wrong in our society."
A police security cordon had been erected around Liberation's editorial offices in central Paris.
Source: Agence France Presse
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