A police officer was wounded today in Marseille, in southern France, by a man armed with a knife and the assailant, against whom police officers opened fire, succumbed to his injuries, Agence France-Presse reported, citing a police source and the municipal authority.
The incident occurred at around 09.00 local time when this man attacked three municipal police officers, the city's deputy mayor for security and municipal police, Yanik Oanesian told AFP.
The colleagues of the police officer who was wounded "initially responded by using non-lethal weapons, then one of them" fired, fatally wounding the attacker, he explained.
According to Interior Minister Gérard Darmanin, who was in Marseille this morning for the inauguration of the new police headquarters, "the perpetrator is French."
To my knowledge, for the moment, he is not known to the police authorities and had a clean criminal record."
Source: APE-MPA
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