The individual was walking around the city center firing shots. He was also shouting “Allahu Akbar”, according to a police source.
An armed forty-year-old wandering in the center of Saint-Quentin (Aisne) while firing shots was injured during his arrest by the police on Thursday August 18, the prosecution told AFP.
At 6:23 a.m., witnesses called the police to report shots fired by a lone man, armed with a shotgun, with no identifiable target according to the first elements of the investigation. Several witnesses state that the individual shoutedGod is great“, reports a police source to the Figaro.
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A night crew (two police officers) and a morning crew (a police officer and a trainee) then intervened. When the police arrived at 6:28 a.m., the man fired in their direction without hitting them, added the prosecution. The officials fought back, injuring the maniac in the shoulder. Once on the ground, the latter struggled and the police had to use a stun gun to subdue him.
The armed man, whose vital prognosis is engaged, was hospitalized in emergency and transferred to the hospital of Amiens (Somme). He is not known to the justice system or the intelligence services, according to the first elements of the investigation. The terrorist trailis not excluded, but it is not privileged as things stand“, said the prosecution to AFP. An investigation entrusted to the Amiens judicial police is underway.
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