PARIS (Reuters) – A police operation is underway in the French capital’s La Defense business district, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter on Saturday as Paris police said “an incident” had triggered a panicked rush of people in the area.
A spokesperson for the Paris police department dismissed reports that gunshots had been fired.
The Paris police department earlier issued a tweet advising the public to avoid the area. It did not give further details.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Laetitia Volga; Editing by Richard Lough and Helen Popper)
