Two police officers were shot and injured Thursday evening at the police station in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, boulevard de l’Hôpital, by a man who grabbed an officer’s weapon, we learned from a police Source.
The events occurred around 10:25 p.m. this Thursday. The attacker had just been arrested and the officials were carrying out a search when he grabbed the weapon of one of them, according to a police Source in Le Parisien. Two police officers were hit, one in the chest and the other in the hip, according to our information.
Both are in absolute emergency with a vital prognosis. They were transported to hospital, one to the Pitié Salpêtrière and the other to the Hôtel-Dieu.
Police officers reportedly returned fire, injuring the shooter, whose state of health is not known at this time. He was arrested on Thursday for domestic violence, a police Source told Le Parisien.
The Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, arrived on site shortly after midnight, according to our journalist present on site. He is accompanied by the Paris public prosecutor, Laure Beccuau.
> More information to come on Le Parisien
