PARIS (AP) - The newest on the shootings of police officers in Paris (all times native):
8:30 p.m.
French a long way-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon has ended his political campaign in fashion - with a cocktail.
while different candidates cancelled their ultimate dash of campaigning Friday in mild of Thursday's lethal gun attack on the Champs-Elysees avenue, the firebrand 65-12 months-historic carried on his pre-deliberate experience in Paris in order "not to interrupt the democratic manner."
It all started Friday evening with a minute of silence to honor the slain police officer recognized as Xavier Jugele.
but Melenchon straight away turned to attacking his rivals, and specifically country wide front candidate Marine Le Pen for what he known as "dishonorable and vulgar polemics."
Melenchon, who's gained o ver legions of supporters along with his trademark humor, promised attendees throughout the cocktails that he would not go over his political program again, complaining "I can't take to any extent further."
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7:fifty five p.m.
Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni has expressed hope the attack on police in Paris won't affect how French vote Sunday of their presidential election because "it's what the terrorists want."
Gentiloni spoke Friday in Ottawa, Canada, at a information conference with Canadian leading Minister Justin Trudeau. The Italian chief observed he offered his cohesion in a cellphone name with French President Francois Hollande.
Gentiloni talked about: "i hope there is rarely any particular influence of this episode on the orientation on the vote by using the French, as a result of this is what the terrorists want, to exchange our way of living and ballot ing."
He voiced self belief that the extremely good majority of French will "react with serene calm."
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7:30 p.m.
the former legal professional for the slain Champs-Elysees attacker says his client obviously had "psychological" complications that he didn't get correct support for.
speaking Friday on BFM-television, lawyer Jean-Laurent Panier described attacker Karim Cheurfi as an "extremely isolated" individual, one who passed near left out while in detention.
Prosecutors talked about Cheurfi, who changed into killed after taking pictures dead a French police officer on Thursday evening, had carried a observe defending the Islamic State neighborhood. however Panier observed Cheurfi never spoke about faith, including "his handiest conversations have been about how to fill his way of life with video video games."
Pari s Prosecutor Francois Molins observed Friday that police discovered a observe that apparently fell from Cheurfi's pocket praising IS as neatly items of paper with the addresses of French security sites on them.
IS has claimed accountability for the attack.
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6:10 p.m.
The Paris prosecutor says the Champs-Elysees attacker had a word defending the Islamic State community with him when he opened fireplace on police officers.
Anti-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins stated right through a news conference Friday that the observe apparently fell out of the pocket of Karim Cheurfi, a 39-yr-historical with a crook list.
Molins says the word praised IS and listed the addresses of security sites.
The extremist community claimed Thursday's assault wherein one police officer became killed. Cheurfi was shot and killed with the aid of officers.
Molins talked about Cheurfi had a protracted police list, above all for trying to assault police in the past. The prosecutor talked about Cheurfi became arrested in February, but later released for lack of proof of a probability.
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three:fifty five p.m.
The policeman killed on Paris' most noted boulevard has been identified as Xavier Jugele via Flag!, a French affiliation of LGBT police officers.
The community's president, Mickael Bucheron, instructed The linked Press the slain officer would have celebrated his thirty eighth birthday at first of may also.
Jugele changed into among the many officers who responded to the gun and bomb assault on Paris' Bataclan concert corridor in November 2015, part of a wave of assaults within the French capital that killed 130 individuals, he advised americans.com when the venue reopened a year later with a concert by means of Sting.
americans quoted him as announcing how satisfied he turned into to be at the "symbolic" reopening, "right here to protect our civic values."
"This concert's to have a good time life. to assert 'No' to terrorists," it quoted Jugele as announcing.
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2:53 PM
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2:20 p.m.
Italy's president has condemned what he referred to as a "cowardly" attack on police in Paris Thursday night, three days ahead of French country wide elections.
President Sergio Mattarella says Italy now not simplest takes France's side in the fight in opposition t extremist violence, "but, above all, within the full and common adhesion to the inalienable principles of freedom that, in democracy, discover full and concrete awareness at election time."
Italy's head of state delivered that "no sort of terrorism" can make European nations "reduce from the firm intention of recognizing, safeguarding and merchandising the founding values of our democratic societies."
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2 p.m.
French president Francois Hollande has visited a police officer who was significantly injured in Thursday's attack on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
The president's office noted Hollande went to the medical institution Georges-Pompidou with top Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and indoors Minister Matthias Fekl. The officer turned into one in all two wounded within the assault, along with a German tourist. One police officer become killed earlier than officers shot and killed the attacker.
Hollande additionally went to Paris police headquarters to pay tribute to police forces.
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1:45 p.m.
French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron has known as on the French americans now not to succumb to concern, division and intimidation.
sooner or later after the shootings of cops in Paris and simply two days before the primary round of the presidential election, Macron referred to in a video posted on-line: "the terrorist's will is to destabilize the country".
"In such cases, the position of the president of the Republic because the military chief and guardian of our institutions is to protect the French. i'm competent," he observed.
Macron, an impartial centrist considered as one of the entrance-runners, recalled a sequence of security measures listed in his crusade platform: boost police and armed forces forces and intelligence capabilities, and pursue France's militia operations towards the Islamic state group in Iraq and Syria.
the two proper contenders Sunday will boost to th e runoff on may additionally 7.
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1:forty p.m.
The Champs-Elysees attack is deepening France's political divide, with the Socialist prime minister tearing into some distance-correct presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, accusing the national entrance leader of seeking to make political hay from the assault.
After Le Pen spoke scathingly previous Friday of the executive's battle against extremism, major Minister Bernard Cazeneuve referred to that Le Pen's birthday celebration in 2014 voted in opposition t an anti-terrorism law and, in 2015, against a legislation that beefed up substances for French intelligence services.
"She looks to be deliberately forgetting everything that has been performed over 5 years to make americans overlook that she antagonistic every little thing, without ever proposing anything else severe or credible," he referred to.
He added that "as after every drama, the national front candidate seeks to profit ... to divide. She seeks, with out disgrace, to exploit worry and feelings for merely political ends."
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12:35 p.m.
Belgium's interior minister says Islamic State gave a false name for the person who attacked police on Paris' Champs-Elysees.
Islamic State's claim of responsibility got here simply a couple of hours after the attack - far more at once than other an identical claims - and the observation gave the attacker a pseudonym that could imply he became Belgian or had ties to Belgium.
Belgian indoors Minister Jan Jambon stated Friday, "The guy who yesterday did the act changed into not a Belgian. He was French."
requested concerning the Abu Yusuf Al-Beljiki pseudonym given via IS, Jambon said he "is on no account the man who committed the crime t he day gone by."
IS has been dropping territory in Iraq and Syria and has seen the number of overseas recruits, especially from Europe, dwindle.
The swift claim indicated the neighborhood can also have been trying to capitalize on the frequent consideration from a high-profile attack at a time when Islamic extremism and security are on the center of France's presidential campaign.
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eleven:fifty five a.m.
French conservative candidate Francois Fillon has pledged to preserve the nation below a state of emergency following the shooting of cops Thursday in Paris.
In a statement at his crusade headquarters, Fillon spoke of "the battle for the French individuals's freedom and security will be mine. This have to be the priority" of the subsequent president.
Fillon promised to increase police and armed forces forces.
He additionally pointed out that, if elected, he would launch a "diplomatic initiative" aiming to create an international collaboration in opposition t Islamic extremists that might encompass all important actors, including the us, the ecu Union, Russia, Iran, Turkey and the Gulf countries.
France has been beneath a state of emergency considering the 2015 assaults by using Islamic extremists in Paris.
Fillon hopes his journey as leading minister from 2007 to 2012 and hardline views on protection considerations will provide his crusade a lift, simply two days before the first round of the vote.
both accurate contenders Sunday will enhance to the runoff on can also 7.
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eleven:25 a.m.
some distance-appropriate presidential candidate Marine Le Pen known as on the govt to repair France's borders automatically following the t aking pictures of Paris officers in Paris.
The chief of the national front wants France to exit the ecu passport-free Schengen area.
In an announcement from her crusade headquarter in Paris, she asked the govt and judicial authorities to handle the case of all people on the French territory widely used for "their adhesion to the enemy's ideology".
She wants foreigners signaled as Islamic radicals to be expelled from the nation and French nationals recognized for the same intent to face trial.
Le Pen, who has campaigned on anti-immigration views and a powerful security stance, is searching for to give her campaign a last boost forward of Sunday's vote for the primary round of the presidential election. newest polls imply she is equipped to be among the many two proper contenders and improve to the might also 7 runoff.
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11:10 a.m.
Two French officials say the gunman who shot and killed a police officer on the Champs-Elysees changed into detained in February for threatening police then freed.
The officers spoke Friday to The linked Press on circumstance of anonymity as a result of they weren't authorized to publicly discuss particulars of the probe into Thursday nighttime's assault.
The officials referred to the gunman changed into detained towards the conclusion of February after speaking threateningly concerning the police however then launched for lack of facts.
He become convicted in 2003 of attempted homicide in shootings on two law enforcement officials.
Police shot and killed the gunman after he opened fire on a police van on Paris' most famous boulevard. The Islamic State group instantly claimed responsibility for the attack.
10:55 a.m.
far-left presidential candidate Philippe Poutou is blaming French politics for the deadly assault on Paris' Champs-Elysees, through which a police officer and the attacker were killed.
Poutou, a car-manufacturing unit worker backed with the aid of anti-capitalist birthday party NPA, says the roots of extremist attacks are neither in mosques nor migrant camps. He referred to: "they're within the circumstance of external and inner warfare maintained via the state, and in the injustice and discriminations maintained in the suburbs."
Poutou says the French state has to share the blame for attacks since it discriminates in opposition t americans residing in impoverished suburbs on account of "their epidermis color or origins," takes defense force motion in Africa and the core East and sells hands to dictatorships.
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10:50 a.m.
The Belgian man who had been linked by some as an confederate to the Paris terror attack turned himself in, but authorities stated there changed into no link.
A prosecutor in Belgium's Antwerp spoke of: "That man came to police late the day prior to this after he noticed himself seem on social media as terror suspect No. 1 regarding the day past's data."
The prosecutor, who declined to be recognized since the investigation changed into ongoing, mentioned the man had nothing to do with the assault. "He changed into now not part of a terrorism investigation."
Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens told VRT network early Friday that "at this moment we have no advice about Belgian links."
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10:40 a.m.
The Paris prosecutors' office main the investigation into the Champs-Elysees gun attack says police have detained for questioning three members of the family of the suspected gunman, who was shot a nd killed.
The prosecutors' workplace stressed Friday that questioning family members is pursuits in such instances, as investigators are trying to find to check even if the gunman turned into performing by myself, where he obtained his weapons and other details.
The Islamic State neighborhood right away claimed accountability for the assault that killed one police officers and injured two others on the iconic Parisian boulevard Thursday night.
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10:25 a.m.
some distance-appropriate French populist leader Marine Le Pen is asking for "a clear head and a company grip" within the wake of the Champs-Elysees gun attack that put the focus returned on one of the vital main topics of her election crusade for the French presidency: France's combat towards Islamic extremism.
talking Friday morning on RFI radio, Le Pen talked about: "it's time to sto p being naive."
one of the vital key questions heading into Sunday's first-circular vote is whether or not the assault Thursday night that killed a police officer and injured two others could bump up the vote for her application of stepped-up safety and border controls, more supplies for police and more challenging treatment of radicals listed on the govt's database of americans viewed as skills threats to country wide safety.
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10:05 a.m.
Parisian commuters and tourists are going for walks warily past police tape around the Champs-Elysees after an assault that some say can also push voters to prefer a long way-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
Police and troopers are stationed at distinctive websites across the broad, cobblestoned avenue Friday morning.
Retiree Elena Worms, running her dog near the Champs-Elysees, called the att ack "destabilizing" and mentioned she fears it is going to "push people to the extremes" in Sunday's presidential election.
however she pointed out she will not change her vote - she plans to help conservative Francois Fillon, who takes a tough line on safety and what he calls Islamic totalitarianism.
Marty Cisse, an office cleaner from Mauritania, worries that Le Pen's closed-borders platform would threaten immigrants like himself, however observed "safety is important" and talked about it will be the priority of the subsequent president.
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9:fifty five a.m.
The Paris prosecutor's workplace leading the investigation of the Champs-Elysees gun assault says investigators discovered a pump-action shotgun and knives in the gunman's motor vehicle.
Police promptly shot and killed the gunman after he opened fire on officers, killing one and injur ing two others on Thursday nighttime.
The Islamic State neighborhood claimed accountability.
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9:50 a.m.
France's government has reviewed its already wide election protection measures and says it's "totally mobilized" within the wake of the Champs-Elysees gun assault on police officers.
talking after a gathering Friday morning of the govt's protection council, top Minister Bernard Cazeneuve referred to: "Barbarity and cowardice struck Paris closing night, as they also currently struck in other places in Europe - in Berlin, Stockholm, in London."
He said "the total of Europe is centered since it represents the values and beliefs of peace."
He observed greater than 50,000 police and gendarmes are mobilized to protect Sunday's first-round vote in the two-stage election, with an extra 7,000 soldiers additionally on patr ol. He delivered that the intelligence functions are working "within the shadows" and elite intervention police forces are also on alert.
He pointed out "nothing must abate this democratic second, elementary for our nation."
The prime minister appealed for country wide harmony and for people "now not to succumb to worry."
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9:05 a.m.
Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron is attractive to French voters to hold a cool head in the wake of the gun assault of the Champs-Elysees that killed a police officer.
speakme Friday on RTL radio, Macron observed: "What our attackers desire is loss of life, symbolism, to sow panic (and) to disturb a democratic method, which is the presidential election."
The centrist who has been a entrance-runner in polls with Marine Le Pen of the a ways-correct countrywide entrance mentioned he h as canceled two deliberate campaign stops on Friday out of a sense to "decency" and to permit police to concentrate materials on the attack investigation.
asked if the assault would have an impact on voting on Sunday, Macron stated: "no one knows."
He vowed that, if elected, he would within weeks of taking energy create a task force to coordinate French intelligence efforts in opposition t the Islamic State neighborhood, which claimed accountability for Thursday night's assault.
He tore into Le Pen, accusing her of lying with claims that outdated assaults don't have came about below her watch.
"She may not be capable of protect our residents," Macron mentioned of Le Pen.
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eight:fifty five a.m.
French officers say the two police officers injured on the Champs-Elysees by a gunman who killed one of their colleagues ar e both out of hazard.
interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet pointed out one of the vital injured officers changed into more gravely damage than the different however both are doing greater.
countrywide police spokesman Jerome Bonet, also speaking on BFM television, observed "there have been heaps of individuals" on the iconic boulevard in Paris when the gunman opened fire and that the quick response of officers who shot and killed him avoided a probable "carnage."
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eight a.m.
France started picking itself up Friday from a different taking pictures claimed through the Islamic State neighborhood, with President Francois Hollande calling together the executive's protection council and his would-be successors in the presidential election crusade treading cautiously before voting this weekend.
one of the crucial key questions was if , and how, the assault that killed one police officer and wounded three different individuals could have an impact on balloting intentions. The risk for the leading candidates became that misjudging the general public temper, making an unwell-perceived gesture or comment, might harm their options. With polling just two days away, and campaigning banned from Friday in the dark, they might haven't any time to get well earlier than polls open on Sunday. Candidates canceled or rescheduled final crusade pursuits forward of Sunday's first-round vote in the two-stage election.
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