‘Blasts smashed window’
Christian, a neighbour in Saint Denis’ rue de la République has told BFMTV being woke up by gunfire at 4.20am and seeing police on the roof shooting into an apartment opposite. Later blasts smashed the windows in the flat and a mattress came out the window, writes Henry Samuel in Paris.
A police source said three suspects had been arrested so far. A justice source said at least two had been killed, including a woman who blew herself up with a suicide belt.
The source said the operation was still under way shortly before 8 a.m. (0700 GMT) and police were still trying to “neutralize” two more suspects.
“There are men from RAID shooting from the rooftops,” Djihane, a neighbor, said on France Inter radio. “We’ve been told to lie on the floor and not go to the windows.”
Three policemen and one other person were hurt during the operation. There was no immediate official confirmation.
“a mattress came out the window”
Those Frenchmen can get pretty wild in the bedroom! ;)