As the political row intensified, the extreme-right Marine Le Pen of the National Front suggested French intelligence may have missed the gunman partly because it had been diverted by Sarkozy's government to snoop on journalists and political opponents.
Almaguer did not give any information about the other two men also missing after around seven gunmen went into the restaurant and broke up a birthday celebration that also included nine women who, he said, were not harmed.
Though less than a yard away, the gunman missed and fled after a struggle, Mr. Hedegaard said.
During the clashes on Friday, two soldiers were killed, and later three off-duty soldiers were kidnapped by gunmen and remained missing on Saturday, according to The Associated Press.
The gunmen missed their target and fled when his guards returned fire.
Along the way, the gunman's car was rammed by a police car, and the gunman fired two shots, narrowly missing the officer driving, said Mayor Wynnton Melton of Geneva, whose police officers were involved in the chase.
On Thursday, the ministry said it had established that two Polish citizens were among the tourists shot by gunmen, with one presumed missing.
Then, as the doors opened and the other passenger fled down the station's platform, the gunman shot at least once, missing his intended victim.
President Donald Trump has criticized the FBI for missing "all of the many signals" about the suspected gunman behind Wednesday's deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
The gunman narrowly missed the Afghan leader before dying in a hail of bullets fired by Mr. Karzai's American Special Forces bodyguard.
The gunman shoots one soldier twice before taking aim at another, but missing.
