"The shooting that killed one police officer was an act of terrorism"

According to AFP, on January 8, the French prosecutor's office announced that the shooting that occurred that morning in the capital Paris that left a female police officer dead will be tried in anti-terrorism courts.

Rescue workers help an injured person near the site of a shooting in Montrouge. (Source: AFP)

In a statement, the French prosecutor's office said the decision was based on the "current context" after Islamist gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo a day earlier.

The agency also stressed that there was no link between the two attacks./.

According to VNA