2020-02-03T19: 51: 02.211Z – The drafting of LCI
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The perpetrator’s motivations are currently unknown. A gendarme opened fire on Monday afternoon on a man who threatened him with a knife at the gendarmerie of Dieuze, in Moselle. The individual was hospitalized after being injured in the abdomen.
According to the Metz public prosecutor, Christian Mercuri, if the exact circumstances have not yet been determined, a terrorist act cannot be excluded. “We must relate the facts to a call received by the operational center of the gendarmerie shortly before in which an individual declared that he was a soldier, that there was going to be carnage in Dieuze and that he claimed to be ISIS, “he told reporters in the evening.
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The events took place around 3.30pm in the gendarmerie of this town of 3000 inhabitants located in the east of the department. Questioned by AFP, the national gendarmerie confirmed that “a man in civilian clothes brandished a knife in the Dieuze gendarmerie”.
The attacker “wounded a gendarme in the hand, which first fired back with his tear gas canister and then used his weapon twice,” she said, adding that her “prognosis” was “ignored” .
The first investigations must determine whether it is a case of “ordinary law or an attack of a terrorist nature”, said the local gendarmerie, confirming that it had “been subjected to an assault attempt”.
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