The events took place in the 13th arrondissement of Paris this Thursday evening. Both men were taken to hospital shortly after the shooting.
Two police officers were seriously injured by gunshot 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. Around midnight, the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, who was accompanied by the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, went to the scene.
The prefect explained to the press that the attacker had been arrested around 10 p.m. in a “building” in the 13th arrondissement for “a very violent attack on a woman” with a “cutter”.
“The police intervened and brought him back here (to the police station) and it was when he was picked up that he stole the weapon“of a civil servant and injured”seriously” two police officers. The injured officials were immediately transported to hospital as was their attacker, himself “seriously” injured by a return shot, said the police prefect.
“We are very concerned about the state of health (of the two police officers). We are all very worried“, he again underlined, bringing his “support for staff at the 13th police station“, “saluting their courage and responsiveness“. He announced that a judicial investigation was underway and the Paris Judicial Police were responsible for establishing “the circumstances” of this tragedy.
Asked by AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office clarified that three investigations had been opened. Two are entrusted to the 3rd District of the Judicial Police, 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 in the chest, was taken to hospital“His vital prognosis is not in jeopardy,” he added.
“The investigations must in particular specify the circumstances of the facts, the identity of the accused, as well as his possible links with the female victim.“, concluded the prosecution.
