(Bloomberg) -- Paris was on edge as a shooting south of the city today claimed the life of a policewoman and the hunt intensified for two of the perpetrators of yesterday’s massacre at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
As hundreds of police and soldiers patrolled airports, schools and cultural sites like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, a suspect package at the Gare du Nord resulted in the evacuation of the station and streets around the Presidential Elysee Palace were blocked by security officers in body armor.
Rumors of armed men, shootouts, explosions and bomb threats made their rounds on social media and over the airwaves, and police guarded the main gateways to the capital, creating an atmosphere of a city under siege. One of the deadliest attacks since World War II at the heart of Europe by suspected Islamist assailants is bringing with it an environment of fear to France and the region.
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