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It handles most domestic fights as well as some international ones and served 31.
2 million passengers in 2016, according to Paris Airport authority.
The Interior minister, Bruno Le Roux, was on his way to the airport, according to the ministry?s Twitter feed.
Air traffic was suspended at both terminals at Orly after the incident, the Interior Ministry said.
PhotoPARIS ? A man who grabbed for the gun of a soldier at Orly Airport outside Paris Saturday was fatally shot, prompting the partial evacuation of the airport, the diversion of all flights, and a sweep to determine whether any explosives were there, officials said.
The top government official in the area of the airport, the prefect of Val-de-Marnes, asked passengers on their way to Orly to stay away for the time being.