The police killed a man armed with a “butcher” knife, this Wednesday, at the La Valentine shopping center, in the 11th arrondissement of Marseille. He had thrown himself on agents to attack them in the Cultura store.
“Fed up with this world, I made my decision a long time ago and I regret that Putin did not do the job”. These are the last words spoken by the 59-year-old man who was shot dead on Wednesday in Marseille.
“The hypothesis of the terrorist act is ruled out“, according to Dominique Laurens, prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille. The preferred track is that of“suicide by proxy” from an exhausted aggressor.
Quickly, before the arrival of the police, the employees had evacuated the customers.
“The employees of the Cultura store showed great courage, trying to appease him”, she also says.
No other injuries are to be deplored. A psychological aid device is activated for the witnesses on the spot.
1 p.m., this Wednesday, a man armed with a knife burst into the Cultura store in the La Valentine shopping area in Marseille (11th).
A crew from the emergency police brigade composed of three people from the southern zone is called.
“He makes incoherent remarks and seems very agitated”, according to the first testimonies.
When the police tried to arrest him, “he threw himself on them to attack them, overturning the shelves“, specifies the parquet floor of Marseille.
Two of the three police officers shot the attacker five times. Two bullets hit him, one in the chest, the other in the shoulder.
Despite the intervention of firefighters, the man died of his injuries.
“The scene filmed by a witness is extremely violent and lasts a long time”says the prosecutor.
It all started in the parking lot. Then the man entered the Cultura store and started threatening customers.
According to the prosecutor, “the video makes it possible to confirm the versions of the witnesses and the police“.
The judicial police and the IGPN are seized.
“The motives are attempted homicide on a person holding public authority“, specifies the parquet floor.
The police were heard under the free hearing regime by the IGPN.
“The first elements favor self-defense“, says the prosecutor.
Without presuming the first conclusions of the investigation and the psychological state of the attacker, this is the 3rd news item in three days in Marseille. On Monday, a woman was violently assaulted with bare hands in the parking lot of his residence in the 10th arrondissement of Marseille. She died shortly afterwards.
The next day, a father who came to pick up his children from a private establishment in the 13th arrondissement was attacked with a knife. He is still in serious condition.
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