Paris acid attack: Person ‘seriously injured’ by corrosive substance at Bastille metro station
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Police in Paris say one person has been seriously injured after being burned during a suspected acid attack on the city’s subway. Reports suggested a fight had broken out at the station between the victim and an “aggressor” at around 6.30am “A rag soaked with a liquid that could be acid was found” at the scene of the incident, a police source told Le Parisien. Support free-thinking journalism and attend Independent events In September 2017, two American college students were injured in a hydrochloric acid attack by a woman at a train station in Marseille, southern France.