An individual attacked, this Friday, municipal police officers and then gendarmes in Chapelle-sur-Erdre, in the northern suburbs of Nantes.
A municipal policewoman is seriously injured in the leg.
Two gendarmes were also slightly injured.
The individual died of his injuries following an exchange of gunfire with the gendarmes.
Nantes public prosecutor Pierre Sennès held a press conference this Friday evening about the attack on a municipal policewoman in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, near Nantes, by a radicalized man.
The individual died of his injuries following an exchange of gunfire with the gendarmes.
Update on the latest elements of the investigation.
A policeman saved by his vest
Pierre Sennès revealed that the assailant, who broke into the premises of the municipal police at Chapelle-sur-Erdre around 10:15 a.m., first stabbed a municipal policewoman several times.
Then he threatened two colleagues with his knife and a service weapon that he managed to steal.
On leaving the municipal police, he came face to face with another municipal police officer and then stabbed him in the chest.
But "the blade broke against the bulletproof vest."
A woman imprisoned and shots from the balcony
We learned this Friday evening that the individual, during his flight, took refuge in a small building and entered an apartment.
Its occupant, a young woman, was then "sequestered for a period of 2h30".
At around 1:10 p.m., the assailant positioned himself on the balcony of the apartment and fired twice in the direction of the nearby gendarmerie.
Two wounded gendarmes
After leaving the building where he had taken refuge, the attacker headed for a field, near the gendarmerie of Chapelle-sur-Erdre.
He approached two soldiers and fired three or four times in their direction.
The gendarmes retaliated and two of them were injured in the knee and neck.
The assailant was fatally shot in the abdomen.
The emergency services failed to keep him alive.
“Satisfactory” socio-judicial monitoring
The public prosecutor confirmed this Friday evening that the assailant was released from prison on March 22, “at the normal end of his sentence”.
His radicalization was reported in 2016 during his detention and he "clearly had serious psychiatric problems".
He was the subject of socio-judicial follow-up with treatment orders.
It is thanks to this follow-up that the suspect had found an apartment in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre.
"He actively participated in the socio-judicial follow-up, he collaborated in the prescribed obligations, he scrupulously followed the care imposed on him" notes Pierre Sennès for whom this "post-sentence follow-up seems quite satisfactory".
No terrorist qualification, for the moment
An investigation for "attempted murder and forcible confinement" has been opened.
But the question of knowing "if the criminal facts are likely to receive a penal qualification in connection with the terrorist and if, consequently, the antiterrorist prosecution of Paris must be seized" has "not been decided" at this stage. of the investigation.
This Friday evening, “after a first joint analysis”, it was decided that “the Nantes prosecutor's office continues to lead the investigation”.
But this situation "could evolve according to the new elements which can be brought", again indicated the public prosecutor.
Our file on the Nantes attack
In addition to this, you need to know more about it.
For the moment, the deposition of the attacked municipal policewoman or that of the young woman kidnapped at her home is missing.
The analysis of the attacker's computer hardware is also missing.
This attack comes a little over a month after that of Rambouillet (Yvelines), during which a police officer was killed with a knife in the throat by a man, shot dead by a police officer, in the police station.
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