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A woman allegedly caught carrying 3kg of cocaine stole a custom officer’s gun and shot her at Paris’s main airport, prosecutors say.

The incident unfolded at Terminal 2E at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport on Thursday, as first reported by French magazine Valeurs actuelles.

The suspect, from Peru, was reportedly in customs detention when she grabbed a weapon from one of the officers on her way to the bathroom. 

She shot one of the officers in the groin, who was rushed to the Robert Ballanger hospital for an urgent MRI, a security source told the magazine.

A second officer was also injured while disarming the offender, who was being kept in customs detention for allegedly possessing three kilograms of cocaine.

A customs source was quoted as saying: “A second colleague was injured in the knee, not by bullet, while disarming the offender.”

The offender had reportedly aimed for the torso, but the “colleague had the reflex to tap on the weapon to lower the barrel”, the report indicates.

This is not the first time a violent incident has broken out at the airport in the French capital.

Last August, French police officers shot and killed a man who brandished a knife at the same terminal.

He was reportedly homeless and allegedly ran towards police after disobeying their orders.

The Paris police department said on Twitter: “This morning officers neutralised a threatening individual in possession of a knife at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.”

Earlier this year, a veteran United Airlines Captain was slapped with a one-year suspended prison sentence after he was arrested at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport on suspicion of being six times over the legal alcohol limit.

French police said they found the pilot with a “pasty mouth, glassy eyes and difficulties in expressing himself”. 

A blood test at the police station revealed he had 0.59mg/l and 0.56mg/l of alcohol in his system, six times the limit for flight crew in France.

He was given a 12-month flying ban as a result.

A spokesperson for United said: “The safety of our customers and crew is always our top priority. We hold all our employees to the highest standards and have a strict no-tolerance policy for alcohol.”

Daily Express US has reached out to customs at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport for comment.

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