Paris airport attacker was under influence of drugs, alcohol: judicial source

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A picture taken from the screen of a monitor on March 18, 2017 shows a man lying on the ground of a terminal building at Paris' Orly airport after he was shot by French security forces for taking a weapon from a soldier. Security forces at Paris' Orly airport shot dead a man who took a weapon from a soldier, the interior ministry said. Witnesses said the airport was evacuated following the shooting at around 8:30am (0730GMT). The man fled into a shop at the airport before he was shot dead, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP. He said there were no people were wounded in the incident. / AFP PHOTO / - / ALTERNATIVE CROP
A picture taken from the screen of a monitor on March 18, 2017 shows a man lying on the ground of a terminal building at Paris’ Orly airport after he was shot by French security forces for taking a weapon from a soldier.
Security forces at Paris’ Orly airport shot dead a man who took a weapon from a soldier, the interior ministry said. Witnesses said the airport was evacuated following the shooting at around 8:30am (0730GMT). The man fled into a shop at the airport before he was shot dead, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP. He said there were no people were wounded in the incident./ AFP PHOTO /

PARIS, France (AFP) — The man shot dead at Paris’s Orly airport after attacking a soldier was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time, a judicial source said Sunday.

“Toxicology tests carried out on Sunday showed an alcohol level of 0.93 grams per litre in his blood, and the presence of cannabis and cocaine,” the source said, a day after the incident at the French capital’s second-busiest airport.

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