Police officers injured in Paris: who is the man who shot while in police custody?

A man in police custody on the evening of Thursday May 9 at the Paris police station opened fire and seriously injured two police officers. One of the officials was in critical condition Thursday evening.

Exchanges of fire in the police station of the 13th arrondissement of Paris. Two police officers were seriously injured on the evening of Thursday, May 9, around 10:30 p.m., after a man in police custody stole the weapon of one of the officers and opened fire. The suspect took advantage of a body search to steal the firearm.

Targeted by the shots, two police officers were hit and treated in absolute emergency by the firefighters before being taken to Parisian hospitals. One of the officials still has his life threatening this Friday morning declared the prefect of police, Laurent Nuñez, at the microphone of franceinfo. "There is a lot of emotion following these facts which are extremely serious. We are very concerned about the state of health of the two police officers. We are all very worried", declared the same Thursday evening, during a press point in front of the police station of the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

The identity of the perpetrator of the shooting against the police officers remains to be identified according to the Paris prosecutor's office. The man was arrested around 10 p.m. for having "violently attacked a woman in a building on the Quai de la Gare" according to the prefect of police, Laurent Nuñez, who describes an "extremely violent" scene on which the police intervened. The Paris prosecutor's office specifies that the individual is suspected of having "striked a woman with a box cutter". The links between the accused and the attacked woman have not yet been established.

When arrested, the suspect was “very excited” and the police officers had to use the taser to control him according to the police prefect. It was during the search and blowing into the breathalyzer that he stole a police officer's weapon and fired before being neutralized by the police's response. The suspect was shot in the chest and was "seriously injured" without his life threatening, the police prefect said.