Shots Fired Near Marseille on Day of French Prime Minister’s Visit

PARIS — Several armed men fired shots in the air on Monday in a poor suburb of Marseille while the French prime minister, Manuel Valls, was in the city to defend the government’s local security plan, police officials said. No one was wounded.

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Separately, Moussa Coulibaly, the man who attacked soldiers in the southern French city of Nice last week, was formally charged on Saturday with “attempted assassination” in relation to a “terrorist enterprise.” He has been detained indefinitely.

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