Colombes: police officers shoot down a man’s threatening man with a knife

This man, “known for common law facts,” thrown a bottle to the workforce and, a knife in his hand, shouted “Allah Akbar!” While he was getting closer to the police. on the occasion of a road check.

Le Monde with AFP

A man, armed with a knife and shouting “Allah Akbar!”, threatened police in Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine, before being shot, learned the France-Presse agency (AFP ), Friday, October 22, of police sources.

This man “threw a bottle towards the workforce and, a hand knife, screamed” Allah Akbar! “”, while he was getting closer to the forces of the order “on the occasion of a Road control “, without doing wounded among police officers, explained a police source. Injured by the police by the police “at the basin level”, he died, said a second police source.

This “French” man is “known for common law” and “unknown to the reporting processing file for the prevention of terrorist radicalization” (FSPRT), according to these sources. Born in 1990 and living in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), he was known to police for road, customs and narcotics offenses, said a police unionist.

“I salute the cool of the police officers who have neutralized a man threatening them with a knife. More than ever, we must remain vigilant and, more than ever, the police are in the front line” , Tweeted Gérald Darmanin , Minister of Interior. The judicial police of the Hauts-de-Seine and the IGPN, the police police, are seized.

The Mayor of Colombes, Patrick Chaïmovich (Europe Ecology-Les Verts) described the place like “a friendly neighborhood, popular habitat, on a very passenger axis, between Bezons and the Defense, but it is also a neighborhood that has been abandoned by the public authorities for years “.

/Media reports.