French police shoot two at Paris rail station

French railway police on Monday shot and seriously wounded a man wielding a fake gun who had been spraying swastikas at a Paris train station, prosecutors and a police source said. A second man, a taxi driver, was hit in the foot by a stray bullet and taken to hospital.

An officer opened fire when the man who was spray-painting swastikas at Austerlitz station in the southeast of the capital appeared to brandish a handgun and refused to comply with instructions. He was later declared brain dead, the Paris prosecutor's office said. The officer who fired his weapon was in custody while the incident was being checked, prosecutors said.