2 police wounded in shooting on French island of Reunion
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PARIS — A man suspected of links to radical Islam and of glorifying terrorism shot two police officers on the French island of Reunion during an arrest Thursday, officials said.
Police managed to detain the man and his mother, and found weapons and material for making explosives in their apartment in the town of Saint Benoit de la Reunion, according to the Interior Ministry.
The two officers, from a special national police intervention force, were hospitalized with light injuries. The man was wanted for “glorifying terrorism,” the ministry said in a statement, without elaborating.
Antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation because the man was suspected of links to radical Islam, Paris prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre told The Associated Press.
