French Policewoman Shot Dead By Fellow Cop In Gun Game

A French policeman who shot and killed a fellow officer at police headquarters in Paris was fooling around with his service weapon when it went off, a police source told AFP on Monday.

The accident took place on Sunday at the new headquarters of the criminal police in the northwest of the capital.

The police source said the officer who fired the shot was playing with his gun near the entrance to the building when it went off, hitting his colleague in the head.

He has been suspended and taken into custody, judicial and police sources said.

A spokesman for the SCPN police union, Jean-Paul Megret, told France Info radio that the two officers had been practising drawing their weapons, "either playfully or out of stupidity."