UpdateA man fired a gun at two police officers in a police station in Paris. They were seriously injured. Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez confirmed this.
The shooting took place shortly before 10:30 p.m. in the police station of the 13th arrondissement of the French capital. The officers had recently arrested the man and were searching him when he grabbed one of their service weapons and opened fire.
Both officers were seriously injured and one of them suffered life-threatening injuries. The detainee was also seriously injured in the chest by counterfire, but his condition was not life-threatening, Nuñez said. All three were taken to hospital.
The perpetrator was arrested around 10 p.m. in a building in the south of Paris for a “very violent attack on a woman” with a box cutter, the police chief said.
Three investigations have been opened following the facts, the Paris prosecutor said in a press release. The first for attempted murder of the woman attacked by the suspect, the second for attempted murder of persons in public authority. Finally, a third investigation was entrusted to the Internal Supervision Service of the French National Police due to the use of firearms by the officer who shot back at the man, a standard procedure.
“The investigations should clarify the circumstances of the facts, the identity of the suspect, as well as his possible links with the female victim,” the prosecutor added in the same press release.
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