China News Agency, Paris, May 28 (Reporter Li Yang) Another attack on a female police officer occurred on the 28th local time in France.

The policewoman who was attacked was seriously injured, and the assailant was shot dead by the police.

　　The attack on the policewoman that day occurred in La Chapelle-sur-Edre, a town near Nantes in France.

At around 10 am on the 28th, an assailant rushed into the police station with a knife and stabbed a female police officer.

French Interior Minister Darmanin said when inspecting the scene of the incident that the policewoman who was attacked was seriously injured, but she is expected to survive.

　　According to the police, the attacker also stole the victim's policewoman's gun and opened fire on the police who rounded him up.

As many as 250 police and military police pursued the attacker and a gun battle broke out.

The assailant was eventually killed by the police, and two policemen were slightly injured in the pursuit.

The round-up process lasted for several hours, and the police asked local residents to avoid relevant areas and strictly abide by police instructions.

　　The Nantes District Attorney held a press conference that night and revealed that after stabbing the policewoman, the assailant sneaked into a nearby apartment building and kidnapped a woman for more than two hours.

He stated that the mental state of the attacker was not stable at the time.

　　Dalmanin said that the French national counter-terrorism prosecutor has not yet intervened in the investigation, but he revealed that the attacker has a tendency to religious extremism and has been diagnosed with severe schizophrenia.

The assailant is 39 years old. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison for violent crimes and was released from prison in March this year.

Public opinion believes that his personal background is very complicated.

　　French President Macron, who is visiting South Africa, expressed condolences to the attacked policewoman.

French Prime Minister Castel expressed his gratitude to the police and gendarmerie who participated in the arrest of the attacker. He said that the French government and he himself firmly supported the attacked female police officer.

　　There have been successive attacks on the police in France recently.

On April 23, a 49-year-old French policewoman was killed at a police station in Rambouillet, Yvelines, by an assailant with a knife. The assailant was from Tunisia and was 37 years old.

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