The accident took place on Sunday at the new headquarters of the criminal police in the northwest of the capital.
The police source said the officer who fired the shot was playing with his gun near the entrance to the building when it went off, hitting his colleague in the head.A spokesman for the SCPN police union, Jean-Paul Megret, told France Info radio that the two officers had been practising drawing their weapons,"either playfully or out of stupidity.
The dead officer, who was in her twenties, was part of a unit that provided security at the adjacent Palace of Justice, France Info reported.
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