Reports of heavy gunfire, substantiated by several videos appearing on Twitter and a local reporter, has woken residents in the northern Paris region of Saint-Denis. Beginning at around 430am local time, lasting around 15 minutes, Le Parisien reporter Jean Gabriel Bontinck assumed the shooting was part of an ongoing police raid. Police are telling residents to stay indoors.
Fusillade à Saint-Denis, au nord de Paris, lors d’une opération policière #AFP