Two police officers shot down a man on Monday after being threatened for this one with a knife at a very busy Paris train station, Gare du Nord, police sources said.
The man He was carrying a “12-inch” knife on which “ACAB” (all cops are bastards) was inscribed.according to this source.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin specified in a tweet that the events occurred “around 07:00”, when the police patrolled this station.
“The police officers used their weapons to avoid any danger to themselves and to the travelers” Darmanin writes.
The agents drew their weapons and opened fire on the alleged attacker, who died as a result of his injuries, reports ‘Le Figaro’. The three policemen involved have been transferred to a hospital, although they did not present any physical damage.
A journalist from the public channels France télévisions, present at the station at the time of the events, posted a video on social networks, in which two shots can be heard.
Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari told RMC radio that the assailant was “a priori someone known to the police services for wandering around the station.”
“Indeed, he would have attacked (the police officers) with a knife, which led the security forces to use their weapons”Djebbari added.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has applauded the work of the agents who “They have avoided any danger both for themselves and for the travelers” who were at the station at the time. The authorities rule out for now that it is an event of a terrorist nature.
According to a police source, the man, born in 1991, was not registered.
By early Monday morning, the terrorist lead was ruled out.. The National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office indicated that it did not take charge of the investigation.
In a statement, the Alliance, one of the main police unions, He described the aggressor as an “anti-police terrorist” and considered that the attack shows “once again” the risk that agents run in their daily mission.
The attack occurs in the middle of the campaign ahead of the presidential election in April. Right-wing and far-right rivals of liberal President Emmanuel Macron, who has yet to announce his long-awaited candidacy, often attack what he sees as insecurity in France.
(with information from AFP and EP)
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