Attack French newspaper: ministers draft police to protect press A 27-year-old man was left fighting for his life Monday after being shot by an intruder at the Paris offices of left-wing French daily Liberation. The victim, a photographer's assistant, was shot in the chest and stomach with a pump-action shotgun and was in a critical condition, police and the newspaper said. Reactions from the interior and culture ministers and Liberation's chief editor. Images and soundbites.