Police say man opens fire, injuring two, near supermarket west of Paris

French police officials said on Monday a man had opened fire near a supermarket west of Paris and injured two people.

A police official says two people have been seriously wounded in a shooting outside a supermarket west of Paris.

According to BFM TV the man was known to police for violent behaviour. (REUTERS)

The shooter, a man in his 70s, holed up in his apartment after the shooting at a Super U store in the town of Le Port-Marly, the official said. Special police intervention units surrounded the area, and the man quickly turned himself in, the official said.

The official, not authorized to be publicly named according to police rules, said the shooting Monday was the result of a private dispute and had nothing to do with terrorism. France remains on high alert after recent extremist attacks.