Referring to a police source, the AFP said a man attacked another man near the school in the city of Conflans Saint-Honorine in the Paris metropolitan area of the Yvelines department around 5:00 p.m.
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According to the French media, the attacker cut his victim. Reuters said he stabbed her in the neck.
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“The dead body was found around 5:30 p.m.,” a source from the investigation said. “When the police arrived, the person considered to be the perpetrator was still present at the scene and threatened them with weapons,” the source added.
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Then the attacker fled. Police caught up with him in the neighboring Eragny-sur-Oise, three kilometers away. He refused to give up the police. “He waved his gun and continued to threaten the police,” a source told The Sun. He was shot by police then. There were about ten shots.
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Reuters also said he was dead. According to The Sun, he was wearing a suicide bomber vest. FranceNews24 said that he shouted the slogan of Allah akbar or Allah is great.
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The suburb where the attack took place is located northwest of central Paris. The victim is to be a university professor.
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