Two police officers were seriously injured in a shooting at a Paris police station when a man arrested for attacking a woman with a utility knife fired a weapon taken from the officer, a police source said.
The incident occurred shortly before 10:30 pm (9:30 pm in Lisbon) on Thursday evening inside a police station, a police source said, adding that the life of one of the officers was at risk. This information was later confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office, which was contacted by the France-Presse news agency (AFP).
The head of the Paris police, Laurent Nunez, arrived at the scene around 0:00 (23:00 on Thursday in Lisbon) and told the press that the attacker was detained around 22:00 (21:00 in Lisbon). in a building in the south of the French capital for a “very brutal attack on a woman” with a “stationery knife.”