The assailant, an Algerian national, was “neutralized” by the police shootings. The interior minister Gerald Darmanin was expected on site Monday morning.
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Two officials of a back-police crew were attacked Monday, November 8 in the morning to 6:30 in front of the police station in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) while they were on board their service vehicle with two of their colleagues. According to the first elements of the investigation, the crew getting ready to leave on patrol when an individual has approached the rear side window left by claiming an inquiry. That’s when the police dropped the glass he brought to it multiple stab wounds to the chest. Protected by his body armor, the officer was not injured. The man, noting his failure, has bypassed the police car to attack in the same conditions, the skipper and driver. He also carrying a body armor, he was able to escape the attack. Two officers then returned fire and the knife holder individual was hit by two shots. Evacuated to a hospital, his life is involved.
The attacker, aged 37 and holds an Algerian passport appears, police said, “unknown to all files.” But the procedure, the determination he has shown in attacking successively to two police officers and the witness statements outlining mentions of “Prophet” when he carried the knife wounds lead, according to the same source, investigators of the judicial police of Nice, seizure investigations, to “consider a terrorist attack.” At this point, the National Counterterrorism Parquet did not enter the incident on Monday morning, but such a possibility was not ruled out as a result of the investigations. The interior minister Gerald Darmanin announced on Twitter go “on site immediately” and said bring “all [his] support for the national police and the city of Cannes.”
“deteriorating situation”
If the specific circumstances of the attack as the motives of the attacker remain to be clarified, this new knife attack follows several incidents qualified “weak signals” by the police and recorded during the day precedents. In the night from Saturday to Sunday 6 November 7 in Villeurbanne (Rhône), a man with a knife yelled “Allah Akhbar” after attempting to rob the undercover police vehicle near the security group, armed him as a knife, before being arrested.
In the same city the day before a 15 year old showing off a machete and passing near a Jewish school uttering anti-Semitic insults had been apprehended by the police. “These two cases have not much to do with the terrorist attacks but they show a deterioration of the situation and an acting out increasingly frequent with knives”, noted Monday morning a police official.
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