An intervention for domestic violence went wrong in Toulouse: the violent spouse threw himself on the police with a knife and was shot by one of them, said sources close to the investigation on Saturday. At around 11:00 p.m. on Friday, a patrol went into a housing unit, after the call of a woman reporting an assault. Summoned to leave the apartment, the man with a knife went to the police, one of them fired and touched his rib cage, according to a police source.
The IGPN (Inspectorate General of the National Police), the police, was seized to determine if the police officer was in self-defense, the same source said. The 47-year-old man, known for various acts of domestic violence, “was already very vindictive. Suddenly, he appeared, knife in hand before deliberately attacking the police at very close range. One of the directly threatened police officers fired, "Toulouse prosecutor Dominique Alzeari told La Dépêche du Midi .
A decision that is made "in a fraction of a second"
The scene took place in a peripheral district of the city. A first patrol, then a second, was sent to the scene to calm the man, who is said to be drunk, according to a police source. "I co-contacted the SRPJ and the General Inspectorate of the National Police to carry out the investigations which will be thorough and necessarily objective in order to understand the sequence of events. Even if the context seems clear and coherent, without prejudging anything, "added the prosecutor.
For David Martinez, representative of the SGP police union in Occitania, the police officer was in self-defense. "It is the investigation that will determine it," he added, "but we have a violent, armed individual who ran into a police officer. The decision is made in a fraction of a second, a police officer used his weapon. They did their job, the police had already intervened several times at this address for domestic violence ”.
“In the context of confinement, observes the police unionist, we are more and more in interventions at home, for domestic violence, night noise. There is an increase in family disputes ”.
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- Toulouse
- Violence against women
- Self-defense
- Police
- Domestic violence