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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   2 officers shot on French island of Reunion; bomb materials found at   
   Islamist suspect's home   
      
      
      
   A man suspected of links to radical Islam and of glorifying terrorism   
   shot two police officers on the French island of Reunion during an   
   arrest Thursday -- and police found bomb-making materials at his home,   
   officials said.   
      
   Officers detained the unnamed suspect and his mother. Police also found   
   weapons in his apartment in the town of Saint Benoit de la Reunion, according   
   to the Interior Ministry.   
      
   The two officers, from a special national police intervention force, were   
   hospitalized but were expected to survive. The man was wanted for "glorifying   
   terrorism," the ministry said in a statement, without elaborating. The   
   shooting came just a week after    
   a police officer was killed in Paris in an attack claimed by the Islamic State   
   terror group.   
      
   Antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation because the man   
   was suspected of links to radical Islam, Paris prosecutor's office spokeswoman   
   Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre told The Associated Press. The suspect, in his 20s,   
   opened fire with a    
   shotgun as a special police squad arrived to raid his home, the BBC reported.   
      
   The man appeared to be acting alone, according to a local Reunion official who   
   was not authorized to be publicly named.   
      
   France is under a state of emergency after multiple Islamic extremist attacks.   
   Extremists have notably targeted French security forces, seen as representing   
   the reviled state.   
      
   One of France's biggest overseas territories and located east of Madagascar,   
   Reunion is an ethnically diverse island with a mix of religions at the   
   crossroads of historic sea trading routes between Africa, Asia and the Arab   
   world.   
      
   French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron, an independent centrist, and   
   far-right leader Marine Le Pen have both visited the island during the   
   campaign. They meet in a tense runoff election May 7.   
      
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