A man who “threatened police officers with a butcher’s blade” was killed in Paris on the night of Friday to Saturday by the police who fired after using their electric pulse gun, the prosecution said. , confirming information from Parisian.
The deceased man was identified as having been born in January 1984 in Sudan and unknown to the justice system, according to the same source. The public prosecutor’s office opened two investigations: one for attempted intentional homicide against a person holding public authority, entrusted to the 2nd judicial police district, and the other for intentional violence by police officers leading to death without intention of the victim. given, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN).
The man “rushed” at the police
Shortly before 3:00 a.m., “police services were requested for a threatening individual, dressed in a djellaba and equipped with a butcher’s blade, located at the Butte du Chapeau Rouge tram station at 13 boulevard d’Indochine in the 19th arrondissement of Paris”, relates the prosecution, which went to the site. “When they arrived, the man was holding a butcher’s blade in one hand and a notebook with Arabic inscriptions in the other,” according to the prosecution.
He “did not comply with their injunctions to drop his weapon, and despite repeated uses of the electric shock gun by the police, he rushed towards them, still holding the butcher’s blade”, continued the same source. “According to initial information, four police officers used their weapons around twenty times,” adds the prosecution.
No police officers were injured. The four “having used their weapon, shocked”, were transported to hospital, indicates the same source.