On 19 April 2015, Aurélie Châtelain, a dance instructor, was found shot dead in her burnt-out car in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, outside Paris. Shortly after, Sid Ahmed Ghlam, an Algerian student, sought medical help in Paris for bullet wounds in one of his arms. His behaviour raised suspicions, leading French authorities to check his car, a Renault Mégane where they found a Kalashnikov rifle, a revolver and a bullet proof vest.