AFP
Two police officers seriously injured by a man in a Paris police station
Two police officers were seriously injured by gunfire on Thursday evening in the central police station of the 13th arrondissement of Paris by a man who grabbed a civil servant’s weapon, after being arrested for the attack with a box cutter on a woman.The events took place shortly before 10:30 p.m. inside the police station, according to a Source close to the case who specified that one of the two police officers was in serious danger. What the Paris prosecutor’s office, requested by AFP, later confirmed. A shooting occurring in the very premises of a police station is extremely rare. Around midnight, the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, who was accompanied by the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, went to the site. – Three investigations – He explained to the press that the attacker had been arrested around 10:00 p.m. in a “building” in the 13th arrondissement for “a very violent attack on a woman” to the “cutter”. “The police intervened and brought him back here (to the police station) and it was when he was taken into charge that he stole the weapon” from an official and injured ” seriously” two police officers. The injured officials were immediately transported to hospital as was their attacker, himself injured “seriously” by return fire, said the police prefect. “We are very concerned about the state of health (of the two police officers). A judicial investigation was underway and the Parisian PJ was responsible for establishing “the circumstances” of this tragedy. Asked by AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office specified that three investigations had been opened. Two are entrusted to the 3rd DPJ, one for “attempted murder of the woman”, the other for “attempted murder of persons holding public authority”. The 3rd investigation was entrusted to the IGPN (the “police of police”) for “intentional violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority”, as is always the case when a police officer uses his weapon. The prosecution specified that the accused “injured to the chest, had been taken to hospital. “His vital prognosis is not in jeopardy,” he added. “The investigations will have to specify in particular the circumstances of the facts, the identity of the accused, as well as his possible links with the female victim,” concluded the parquet.sm-gd/cal/rr
