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LIVE: Paris prosecutor speaks to press on police investigation into Lyon attack

Issued on: 25/05/2019 - 11:36Modified: 25/05/2019 - 12:11

Patrick Hertzog, AFP | Paris Public Prosecutor Remy Heitz delivers a speech during a press conference at the Strasbourg's High courthouse in Strasbourg, northeastern France, the day after a lone gunman opened fire at a Christmas market in Strasbourg.

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The Paris prosecutor issues an update into the police investigation into the attack in Lyon that wounded 13 people on Friday. Watch FRANCE 24's live coverage.

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President Emmanuel Macron called the explosion that happened Friday, apparently from a package packed with shrapnel, an "attack".

Police issued an appeal for witnesses amid a man-hunt for a man believed to be in his early 30s on a mountain bicycle caught on security cameras in the area immediately before the explosion.

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