PARIS—A gunman opened fire on the Champs-Élysées on Thursday, killing a police officer and severely wounded another in an assault prosecutors were investigating as a possible terror attack, just days before France’s presidential elections begin. The assault began around 9 p.m., an Interior Ministry spokesman said, when a car pulled alongside a police patrol and the gunman jumped out wielding an automatic rifle. Police returned fire,...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 20, 2017 20:10 UTC