In the Var, the Man Shot by the Police Near a School Was a Sudanese Refugee.

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A man was killed on Thursday by police officers near a Seyne-sur-Mer nursery school while wearing a machete and threatening children.

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He was 30 years old and without a fixed home, and had lived in France for about 10 years under subsidiary protection. He had been sentenced twice, in particular for "prohibited weapons", according to the prosecutor of the Republic of Toulon.

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He was 30 years old, a Sudanese political refugee in France for about 10 years. He had already been convicted of "possession of prohibited weapons".

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The man, carrying a sword and described as "threat", killed on Thursday by the police near a school in Varoese was a Sudanese political refugee, announced on Friday, 19 September, the prosecutor of the Republic of Toulon. He was 30 years old and had been sentenced twice, in particular for "porting prohibited weapons", first to a fine in 2024 and then to a five-year ban on holding or carrying a weapon in 2025, said the prosecutor, Samuel Finielz.

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After the death of a threatening man shot dead by the police on Thursday afternoon in La Seyne-sur-Mer, the public prosecutor states that the individual was a Sudanese, already sentenced twice for carrying prohibited weapons.