Paris: two police officers slightly injured in front of the police headquarters, a man arrested

Two police officers were slightly injured this Tuesday at midday in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, between Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and the Paris police headquarters. The suspect, claiming to be Sudanese and who was quickly arrested, attacked the two police officers trying to seize the service weapon of one of them, according to our information, collected from police sources. He would have shouted “Allahou Akbar”, according to police sources in the Parisian.
“Three BRF police officers (Ferre networks brigade) in surveillance on rue de la Cité were taken to task by a man arrived at them. He tried to seize the handgun on the belt of one of them, “said the Paris prosecutor’s office this Tuesday in early afternoon. “While the police tried to master it, the man punched the face of one of them. They brought him to the ground, where he again tried to seize one of their weapons, continues the Paris prosecutor’s office. Three other police officers from the prefecture reinforced and allowed the suspect’s handcuffing. »»
Police slightly injured
According to our information, from the documents found on him, the individual arrested was born on September 1, 2001 in Somalia. “The man was carrying a piece of broken mirror, it was not established that he would have used it,” said the Paris prosecutor’s office. The same individual would have already tried twice, in 2023, to take the weapon of a police officer, of which once at Gare de Lyon in October 2023.
The two injured police officers were taken care of for care when the suspect was taken to a judicial police officer (OPJ). “One of the police suffers from a power cut, another from a fracture to a finger,” said the Paris prosecutor’s office. Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez was informed of the facts and went alongside the injured police.
“Any attack on our police is unacceptable,” reacted on x François-Noël Buffet, Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior. “Full support for injured police officers,” he continued.
The premises were already the scene of a violent police attack on June 6, 2017. That day, on the forecourt of Notre-Dame de Paris, a man armed with a hammer and two knives had attacked a police officer . He had been shot by another police officer. The 43 -year -old Algerian man was sentenced to 28 years in prison.