A man, who was “not known to police services”, according to Gérald Darmanin, assaulted three municipal policemen on Saturday, before being fatally injured during the response fire.
An armed man of a knife injured a municipal policeman in Marseille, Saturday, March 12, before being killed by the response shots of the police officer.
The facts took place at 9 o’clock in front of the City Hall, on the Old Port, when this man attacked three municipal policemen, according to the story made at the France-Presse Agency by the Deputy The security and municipal police of the city of Marseille, Yannick Ohanesian.
The colleagues of the police officer affected have “first fought with their non-lethal weapons, then one of the police rossed with his lethal weapon”, mortally wounding the aggressor, “said Mr. Ohanesian.
“Multiple summons”
According to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, present in Marseille Saturday morning for the inauguration of the future Commission of the 13 e and 14 e districts, “l ‘Aggressor is French “. “For the moment, to my knowledge, he is not known police services and he would not have a judicial history,” he added.
By his side, the Socialist Mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, said the aggressor had taken up “several times” to the injured police officer and that the subject municipal policemen had made “several sums” before to make use of their weapons.
No other precision has been given regarding the attacker’s profile.