France: A policeman was injured in a knife attack – The perpetrator is dead


A police officer was injured in France and more specifically in Marseille by a man armed with a knife and the perpetrator, against whom police opened fire, succumbed to his injuries, the French Agency reports, citing a police source and the municipal authority. The incident took place around 09.00 local time, when this man attacked three municipal police officers, the deputy mayor for security and municipal police of the city, Yannick Onesian, told AFP. The colleagues of the policeman who was injured “responded first with the use of non-lethal weapons, then one of them” shot, fatally injuring the perpetrator, he explained. According to Interior Minister Geral Darmanen, who was in Marseille this morning for the inauguration of the new police department, “the perpetrator is French”, while “as far as I know, he is not known to the police and had a clear criminal record. register”.
Source: News Beast

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