French Police Shoot Dead A Man With Machete Near School
The man ignored police commands and advanced with a machete, prompting officers to fire six shots after using an electroshock weapon, officials said.
- Shortly before 5 pm on Thursday, French police fatally shot a man carrying a machete close to a nursery school in La Seyne-sur-Mer after he ignored officers’ commands.
- The man ignored police commands to disarm and advanced toward the officers, who initially deployed a stun gun before shooting him six times.
- Officers arrived near a nursery school and observed the man carrying a large machete with a blade measuring several tens of centimetres; although the children appeared to be threatened, no injuries occurred.
- Public prosecutor Samuel Finielz said police aimed at the man’s lower body and confirmed no one was harmed despite the children being threatened.
- The incident highlights ongoing demands on French officials to enhance safety measures around schools in response to multiple recent knife attacks targeting teachers and students.
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MARSEILLE, Sept 19 — French police on Thursday shot and killed a man wielding a machete near a school in the south-eastern town of La Seyne-sur-Mer, prosecutors said.The “threatening” individual refused to comply with police orders and moved towards the officers, who first used an electroshock weapon and then fired six shots at the man, said public prosecutor Samuel Finielz.He said they aimed at the man’s lower body but he died of his injuries a…
Police near the French city of Toulon have shot and killed a man who attacked them with a machete near a kindergarten.
French police shot dead a man armed with a machete in the town of La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon, on Thursday evening after he first harassed children near a kindergarten and then attacked police officers, BFM TV reported.
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