US EditionKnife-wielding man shot dead by police in Corsica after threatening bystanders
Police shot a 26-year-old man after his refusal to drop a knife and failure of a stun weapon, with one officer slightly injured during the incident.
- On Saturday, a knife-wielding man who threatened bystanders and shopkeepers was shot dead in Ajaccio, Corsica, police said after officers responded to reports of a threat.
- Police received a call around noon about a shop threat in Ajaccio, and the 26-year-old male assailant had left the original scene before being found elsewhere in the city centre still holding a knife.
- Officers ordered the suspect to drop the weapon and used an electrical impulse weapon that failed, then fired when the man advanced with the knife, police said.
- One police officer was slightly injured in the hand, police said, and emergency services responded to the scene in Ajaccio to intervene after the shooting.
- French Interior minister Laurent Nuñez said `vigilance is at its highest` during the festive season and ordered reinforced public patrols, while police said the assailant's motive was not immediately known.
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On the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, a man armed with a knife who threatened passersby was killed by a police officer on Saturday. According to the judicial authorities, the police first used an electric shock gun in the incident in the centre of Ajaccio.After this did not stop the attacker, one of the police officers fired several shots at the 26-year-old man who died after that.Well no terrorist actThe prosecutor of Ajaccio, Nicolas …
Police in Corsica, France, have shot dead a man who was walking through the streets armed with a knife, threatening several pedestrians.
French police officers have shot and killed an individual carrying a knife in the centre of the city of Ajaccio in Corsica on Saturday morning at Napoleon Avenue in the Corsican capital when a 26-year-old man was shot down by the police, who was warned after a conflict between a man and dependants, reports the CNews Corso news portal.The now deceased threatened to attack passers-by and customers on the terrace of a bar and when the officers arri…
Krimau El Maddler was on the terrace of a bar with his friends at the time of the events.
The police stopped a journey that could have turned into a tragedy. At midday, Saturday, 20 December, an individual travelling by scooter from the Rocade, in the direction of the city centre of Ajaccio, made a mess on the course Napoleon. According to the first elements of the prosecutor of the Republic, Nicolas Septe, the man enters a first bar. An altercation bursts with customers, he displays a knife. Repressed, he continues his road and ente…
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