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College Station 8B Thursday, March 28, 2002 internal MOI THE BATTAt)^ Man kills 8, wounds) H 30 in council shootim NANTERRE, France (AP) —- A man opened fire with automatic pistols at the end of a city council meeting in a Paris suburb early Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 30 others, including 14 seriously. Police arrested the suspect, who was described as some one who was active in local politics and had attended sev eral council meetings. The man did not speak dur ing the shooting and did not make any clear statement when he was arrested, officials said. The attacker used at least two automatic pistols, said res cue worker Laurent Vibert, and 50 shells were scattered inside the meeting room. Vibert said the suspect, said to be in his 30s, was apparently a member of the leftist Green Party. “It’s apparently a case of furious dementia,” said Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who rushed to the scene. “A horrify ing tragedy that harms democ racy — a city council meeting in action,” he said. Dozens of police vehicles and more than 100 rescue offi cials rushed to the scene. A res cue helicopter took some of the wounded to a nearby hospital. The bloody rampage took place at about 1:15 a.m. as about 40 people attending the meeting put on their coats to leave. Nanterre is a middle- class neighborhood near a busi ness district of western Paris. Local Mayor Jacqueline Fraysse said she did not know the attacker. There had been no heated debate and the meeting was ending quietly when the shooting began, she said. “I ended the session,” she said. “A man got up. He had been sitting in the public area. He shot straight in front of him, and then he moved to where the council members were sitting.” “He said nothing ” she said. “It was long. It lasted many minutes.” Rising crime is at the top of France’s political agenda ahead of presidential elections in the spring. Thousands of police offi cers held nationwide strikes in December, saying they deserve more pay and better equipment because their jobs have become increasingly risky. The protests started after two offi cers were shot and killed dur ing an armed robbery' in a Paris suburb in October. In October, a masked gunman France sh A man opened fire at act council meeting with a* pistols in a Paris suburbs' Wednesday, killing eights wounding 19 others, rec / # Nanterre ■s- oMj Gunman opened fire UK. 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