Hunt on for Paris gunman who shot newspaper photographer French police have deployed throughout Paris, tracking a lone fugitive gunman who shot a young photographer. A man, believed to be a supect in the shooting of a Paris photographer, points a shotgun at employees of the BFM TV station. FRENCH police have launched an extensive manhunt in Paris for a shotgun-wielding lone gunman who critically wounded a newspaper photographer and opened fire outside a bank headquarters. Officers on foot and in squad cars deployed throughout the nervous capital, taking up positions outside media offices, along the famed Champs-Elysees avenue and at entrances to stations for the underground train system, the Metro. The gunman, wearing a cap and wielding a 12-gauge shotgun, opened fire at the offices of left-wing newspaper Liberation around 10.15 am local time. A 27-year-old photographer, who the newspaper said had arrived for his first day of freelance work, suffered buckshot wounds to the chest and stomach. He was taken to hospital in a critical condition. The newspaper later said that he underwent surgery and was being kept in intensive care. After fleeing the daily's offices in the central east of Paris, the same man is believed to have crossed the city to the La Defense business district where he fired several shots outside the main office of the Societe Generale bank, hitting no one. He then reportedly hijacked a car and forced the driver at gunpoint to drop him off close to the Champs-Elysees. Unconfirmed rumours rippled through the city that the man was armed with grenades as well as the hunting-style pump-action shotgun used in the two shootings. The motive for the shootings was not known. French President Francois Hollande, speaking during a trip to Jerusalem, warned of the danger the gunman presented. He "could still kill tomorrow or at any time," Mr Hollande said. Police said security camera images of the shooter suggested he was the same man who last Friday stormed into the Paris headquarters of TV news channel BFMTV to threaten staff. In that incident, the gunman pumped his shotgun to empty several cartridges on the floor, while warning a senior editor: "Next time, I will not miss you." "Given the similarities in the four incidents, between the modus operandi, the physical appearance and attire of the perpetrator, and also in the ammunition gathered, we believe we are dealing with a single perpetrator," Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said. Prosecutors released photographs of the man taken from surveillance camera images and described him as white, aged between 35 and 45, of average height, with salt-and-pepper hair and stubble. Liberation executive Nicolas Demorand said the shooting in the paper's entrance hall left staff traumatised. "When you have someone with a shotgun coming into a newspaper's offices in a democracy, it is very, very serious, whatever the mental state of the person," Demorand told AFP. Liberation journalist Anastasia Vecrin described the scene she encountered on what was otherwise a normal Monday morning. A witness to the shooting outside Societe Generale's headquarters, Francisco Alvarez, told AFP: "I saw this guy with a cap and a shotgun, a pump-action shotgun, in his hand. Philippe Antoine, the editor-in-chief of BFMTV, met face-to-face with the attacker during Friday's incident and said he had appeared calm and determined. The man looked at him with "a lot of intensity and determination," Antoine said. This was someone who was very precise in his movements, not panicked at all, someone who was in control. Mr Valls described the attack as an act "of great violence" that "has nothing to do with democracy."