An intervention under high tension. Saturday afternoon, the police opened fire on a man, holed up and armed with a shotgun in the cellars of a building in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The officials “came under gunfire, to which they responded,” said the Paris prosecutor's office, confirming information revealed by the Actu17 site.
They came to arrest him for domestic violence, we learned from reliable sources. Seriously injured, he was taken to hospital with a life-threatening prognosis. On the police side, no injuries were reported.
The events occurred a little after 4 p.m. in a building on rue Alphonse Karr. A first BAC crew then went there to arrest the man “after filing a complaint for violence committed by an ex-spouse”, specifies the Paris prosecutor's office. But when the police arrived, the maniac did not seem ready to surrender and refused to drop his weapon. These first officials asked for reinforcements to arrest him.
-They are joined first by the Operational Support Group (GSO) then by the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), competent to intervene in this type of risky situation. But the tension does not go down, on the contrary. Around 4:30 p.m., the man allegedly fired at the GSO police officers who returned fire and injured him in the stomach.
“Two investigations have been opened: one of the counts of violence by an ex-spouse, possession of a weapon and attempted intentional homicide against persons holding public authority, entrusted to the 2nd judicial police district of Paris, the other of the charge of violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority, entrusted to the general inspection of the national police (IGPN),” indicates the prosecution.
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