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PARIS, France (AFP) — Police in central Paris opened fire on a car that was hurtling towards them, killing two people inside, a police source told AFP on the evening of the French election. The vehicle was driving against the flow of traffic on the Pont Neuf when it sped towards the officers, who opened fire, according to the same police source. Two of the vehicle’s occupants were killed and a third was injured, […]
by Charles Onians © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered a “full apology” on Tuesday after being fined for breaching Covid-19 lockdown laws in the so-called “Partygate” scandal, but looked set to defy calls for his resignation. Embattled finance minister Rishi Sunak and Johnson’s wife Carrie will also be fined, as the political storm following revelations of a swathe of lockdown-busting parties in and around Downing Street threatens […]
MALMO, Sweden (AFP) — Two people were injured and rushed to hospital on Monday after a “suspected serious crime” at a secondary school in the southern Swedish town of Malmo, police said. It was not immediately known what happened but police said there had been no reports of gunfire. “One person has been arrested. Police have the situation under control,” police said in a statement issued around 6:30 pm (1730 GMT). The incident took place […]
(Eagle News) — Around P374,000 worth of illegal drugs were seized in a buy-bust operation in Bacolod City, the Philippine National Police said on Tuesday, March 15. According to the PNP, also arrested in the buy-bust operation in Purok Tinagong Paraiso, Zone 3, Barangay Banago was Carlo Jordan Arevalo, 24. The PNP said apart from the more or less 55 grams of suspected shabu, one coin purse, one digital weighing scale, one notebook, one box […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — A man with a firearm walked into an Apple store in central Amsterdam late Tuesday and was holding people hostage, police said, adding that several of them had been released. “There is an ongoing hostage situation at the Apple Store at Leidseplein at the moment,” the city police force said on Twitter. “Since the start of the hostage taking … several people have managed to leave the store,” the they […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has released over P3 billion as the performance-based bonus (PBB) of policemen. PNP Finance Service Director Police Brigadier General Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr. said bonuses were credited to the individual payroll accounts of PNP personnel on Friday, February 4, 2022″. The PNP said 201,398 PNP personnel are set to receive their bonuses. Those who were found guilty of administrative and/or criminal cases by final and executory judgment […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Authorities in the US city of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered in 2020, published body-cam video Thursday showing the police shooting of a 22-year-old African American man. According to the police, Amir Locke was shot on Wednesday by officers who were executing a search warrant on the apartment he was in, after Locke pulled a gun from beneath a blanket. The total time between the officers’ entrance and […]
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP) – Panamanian authorities announced Thursday that as part of an operation to disrupt a sex trafficking ring, 10 children were rescued and three people in Panama and Costa Rica were arrested. “The victims in this case range between the ages of four and 16 and the people involved are close relatives” of the minors, said Emeldo Marquez, a senior Panamanian prosecutor. He explained that the relatives “facilitated” the shipment of the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Two campus police officers were shot and killed at a college in the US state of Virginia Tuesday, the school said. The two agents, a campus law enforcement officer and a campus safety officer, were shot before a suspect fled the scene, Virginia State Police said in a statement on Twitter. Multiple law enforcement agencies arrived on the campus of Bridgewater College around 1:20 pm (1620 GMT) in response to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Three monkeys have been found and killed after a truck carrying 100 primates to a laboratory crashed, allowing them to escape and triggering a police hunt. The vehicle turned in front of an oncoming dump truck near Danville, Pennsylvania, on Friday en route to a lab in Florida. Police said on Twitter Friday that “a small number of monkeys may have fled the crash scene into the surrounding area.” […]
by Paula RAMON LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The father of teenager accidentally shot dead by US police in a department store, demanded jail time Tuesday for the officers involved in her killing. The death of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta is the latest at the hands of law enforcement in a country where guns abound and police readily resort to deadly force. “The only thing I want is justice for my daughter,” Juan Pablo Orellana […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – Bodycam footage of the “chaotic” police shooting of a teenager in a crowded California department store was expected to be released Monday, as criticism swelled that officers were all-too-ready to open fire. Fourteen-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta was trying on clothes in a changing room when a stray bullet came through the wall and hit her, killing her instantly. Valentina was shopping in a Los Angeles store with her mother in […]
