President Donald Trump on Thursday said that a shooting on France’s Avenue des Champs-Élysées “looks like another terrorist attack,” though few details have emerged yet about what motivated the incident.
“Our condolences from our country to the people of France,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. “It looks like another terrorist attack, and what can you say, it just never ends.”
Trump called the shooting “a terrible thing and it’s a very very terrible thing that’s going on in the world today.”
“We have to be strong and we have to be vigilant,” he said. “And I’ve been saying it for a long time.”
"It looks like another terrorist attack," Trump says of Paris shooting. "What can you say? It just never ends." https://t.co/Okz2bwUl4f pic.twitter.com/vVrWmFuCu1
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 20, 2017
Paris police said that the attacker and one police officer died during the shooting Thursday afternoon, while another officer was wounded. Few details were immediately available about the shooting, though Reuters reported that it “could have been an attempt at an armed robbery.”
UPDATE: Three police sources say shooting in Paris could have been an attempt at an armed robbery https://t.co/q4HREsDEM5 pic.twitter.com/W1LQBAEDJZ
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) April 20, 2017
