A deadly attack on a police bus in the heart of Paris cast
the shadow of terror over the final days of the French presidential election
campaign.
A gunman wielding a machine gun leapt out of a car and
opened fire on the Champs-Elysees, Paris's most famous boulevard, as candidates
were engaging in their final TV debate ahead of Sunday's vote.
The attack left a police officer dead and two others
critically wounded. Panicked tourists fled the scene, and the assailant was
shot dead as he tried to make his escape.
Paris prosecutors named the attacker as Karim Cheurfi, a
French national with a long criminal record who was reportedly on the radar of
intelligence services.
A second man, suspected of being linked to the shooting,
surrendered himself in Belgium. French police arrested three relatives of
Cheurfi.
ISIS claimed that the attack was carried out by one of its
"fighters," whom it called "the Belgian."
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