The police shot and wounded a man with a history of domestic violence this Friday at the Montparnasse train station in Paris, after he had shown himself threatening with a knife, which caused a movement of panic and led to the temporary eviction of the building.
The Paris Prosecutor’s Office told EFE that, according to the first elements, the police shot at that 44 year old manwho was armed with a knife.
The agents were waiting for him shortly before 3:00 p.m. local time at the station upon his arrival in a train coming from Rennes because it was suspected that he intended to attack his former wife, within the framework of an investigation led by the Kremlin-Bicêtre police station, on the southern outskirts of Paris.
In response to the threatening gestures, a police officer He shot him in the leg and the man injured himself in the neck. with the knife he had on him, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
According to local media, when health services were able to treat him, his condition was extremely serious.
An accidental injury
A 53-year-old man passing by was hit by a bullet in the foot, apparently accidentally.
At the moment, Justice does not consider that there are terrorist motivations on the part of this individual, since if this were the case, the Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office would have taken charge of the investigations.
The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has opened two investigationsone for attempted homicide of law enforcement officers in relation to the individual’s threats and another to determine whether the use of weapons by the police was justified.
This incident had a strong impact on many of the passengers who were this afternoon at Montparnasse station, one day after the official commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the jihadist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris and the Stade de France, which caused the death of 132 people and injured hundreds.