A man arrested for allegedly attacking a woman with a box cutter shot and seriously wounded two officers in a Paris police station on Thursday after grabbing one of their weapons.
A source close to the case said the incident happened in the French capital’s 13th district shortly before 10:30 pm (2030 GMT), and that one of the officers’ wounds was life-threatening.
The Paris public prosecutor’s office later confirmed the source’s account to AFP.
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez arrived at the scene around midnight, accompanied by prosecutor Laure Beccuau.
Nunez told reporters that the suspect had been arrested at around 10:00 pm for a “very violent attack on a woman” with a box cutter.
“The officers intervened and brought him back here (to the police station), and it was during his processing that he snatched the weapon” and “seriously” wounded the two officers, he said.
The officers were both immediately transferred to hospital, as was the suspect, who was himself seriously wounded by return fire, Nunez added.
