Police officer hit with knife, colleagues shoot back

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A fight broke out this Sunday in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) leaving several injured.

A first fight first broke out between three sellers of cigarettes on the sly, causing one injured due to a stab in the abdomen.

Then the police intervened and the situation escalated.

According to information from Le

, a police officer tried to fire with his electric pulse pistol to neutralize one of the participants in the brawl.

But he was then wounded in his turn, with a stab in the leg.

"Three officials fought back"

"Three officials responded by shooting twelve times on these two men," said a source close to the investigation daily.

One was reportedly injured in the leg, the other much more seriously in the abdomen.

"These are the settling of scores between different networks of rival traffickers, which are extremely bloody," lamented to the

, the chief of staff of the mayor (PS) of Saint-Denis.

The departmental service of the judicial police was seized of the investigation.

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