A municipal police officer was seriously injured in a knife attack in France

The life of a police officer is in danger was attacked with a knife today in Chapelle-sur-Erdre, near Nantes (western France).

The suspect escapes, as it became known from the Gendarmerie.

According to a source, “her life is in danger”. “I can confirm that the municipal police officer was attacked by me knife“, Said a representative of the Gendarmerie to the French Agency.

The perpetrator allegedly escaped on foot, according to a source in the French Agency. Reuters reported, citing its own sources, that the perpetrator initially escaped in a car, but had an accident and the perpetrator was forced to continue on foot.

The perpetrator has stolen the police officer’s weapon, BFM TV reported.

Police are guarding schools in the area, according to Reuters and Agence France-Presse, as well as the Athens News Agency.

“Children are confined inside the city’s school and college buildings,” a municipal official confirmed to AFP.

Eighty gendarmes have been deployed to locate the perpetrator, as well as two helicopters, three teams of police dogs and a motorized detachment of the Gendarmerie.

“Avoid the area and strictly follow the instructions of the gendarmes,” the Gendarmerie warned via Twitter.

(The main photo is on file)

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