The abuser, who reported act “on behalf of the Prophet”, was “seriously” hurt by a second policeman and lies between life and death.
Le Monde with AFP
A police officer at the wheel of a vehicle was attacked, Monday morning, November 8, to the white weapon before the Office of Cannes by an individual who reported act “on behalf of the Prophet,” learned the Agence France -Presse of police sources.
“The terrorist track is envisaged,” said one of these sources, adding that the policeman was “saved thanks to his bulletproof vest”. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced he went to the spot. “Victim of a knife, the policeman did not hurt physically, thanks to his bulletproof vest,” he said on Twitter .
Around 6:30, before the police station, the man opened the door of a police vehicle and gave a knife shot “at the level of the thorax” to a first police officer, before going around the vehicle To attack “the head of the edge”, explained a police source. Another policeman then seriously hurt it.
“There are no deaths and the circumstances of the attack are being elucidated,” said Cannes mayor, David Lisnard, on Twitter . The judicial police of Nice is seized.