Around 6:45 a.m. local time, a man was shot dead by police in Rouen, France. The suspect wanted to set fire to a synagogue. “The man was armed with a knife and an iron bar, he approached the police who fired, the individual died,” a Source close to the case told AFP.
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Two investigations were opened after a man tried to set fire to the Rouen synagogue on Friday morning, one into the fire and another into the circumstances of the death of the individual killed by the police, announced the Rouen parquet floor.
A first investigation was opened for “arson” targeting a place of worship and “intentional violence” against police officers and firefighters, the prosecution said.
Another investigation was opened into the circumstances of the death of the armed individual for “intentional violence with weapons leading to death without intention of causing it”, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN).
In this latter context and “as is customary” in the event of use by a police officer of his service weapon, the official was placed in police custody “while the video surveillance images and the collection of his hearing,” said the magistrate.
“I have just viewed these images which establish in my opinion that this police officer used his weapon under the conditions permitted by the internal security code,” he continued, indicating that the guard on sight of the police officer would be lifted after his hearing.
According to the prosecutor, “a first identity” of the killed man was established thanks to “a single Rouen transport network card which he carried” and is still being verified.
The man was subject to an obligation to leave the territory (OQTF) for “less than a year”, but it could not be executed because the man “had initiated an appeal before the administrative courts”, a indicated a Source close to the matter.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is due to go to the synagogue around 1:30 p.m.
