During a police intervention on Sunday morning in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, an official from an ATV brigade opened fire twice on a man who was attacking him with a knife in the street.
The suspect succumbed to his injuries.
A police officer shot dead on Sunday in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, a man who had attacked him with a knife, we learned from the police, who at this stage does not mention any religious or terrorist motivation to aggression.
The police officer fired his service weapon at this man while, on the run, the latter had turned to stab him, at the corner of rue Boinod and rue des Poissonniers.
"The exact circumstances of the facts are to be specified, an investigation is open, the investigations are entrusted to the IGPN" (the "police police"), told AFP the Paris prosecutor's office.
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