The suspect, from Peru, was in customs detention when she grabbed a weapon from one of the officers on her way to the bathroom, it is alleged.
The offender had reportedly aimed for the torso, but the “colleague had the reflex to tap on the weapon to lower the barrel”, the report indicates.
This is not the first time a violent incident has broken out at the airport in the French capital.
Last August, French police officers shot and killed a man who brandished a knife at the same terminal.
He was reportedly homeless and allegedly ran towards police after disobeying their orders.
The Paris police department said on Twitter: “This morning officers neutralised a threatening individual in possession of a knife at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.”
In another unrelated incident that led to a police presence at the airport, a veteran United Airlines Captain was slapped with a one-year suspended prison sentence earlier this year on suspicion of being six times over the legal alcohol limit.
French police said they found the pilot with a “pasty mouth, glassy eyes and difficulties in expressing himself”.
A blood test at the police station revealed he had 0.59mg/l and 0.56mg/l of alcohol in his system, six times the limit for flight crew in France.
He was given a 12-month flying ban as a result.
A spokesperson for United said: “The safety of our customers and crew is always our top priority. We hold all our employees to the highest standards and have a strict no-tolerance policy for alcohol.”
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