There was another knife attack on the police in France.
A woman police officer was seriously injured in an attack in a suburb of Nantes.
Nantes - Within a few weeks, the second knife attack on police officers in France * occurred on Friday.
This time the attack hit a police station in a suburb of Nantes.
The perpetrator is described by the investigators as mentally ill and Islamist.
The man had seriously injured a policewoman and then fled, according to the prosecutor, while he was on the run, he took a young woman hostage.
He had the service weapon of the previously injured policewoman with him.
When emergency services were able to provide him, an exchange of fire developed.
The perpetrator was killed.
“Targeted at police officers”: Suspected Islamist attacks police station - shooting after escape
"The perpetrator targeted police officers," said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on a site visit.
Darmanin said the man was around 40 years old and known to be a threat.
In 2016, the attacker sat in prison and was listed as "radicalized because of a particularly strict interpretation of Islam".
He was born in France.
The prosecutor further describes that the man suffered from severe schizophrenia.
On Friday morning he attacked the police station in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre.
With a large contingent of 80 emergency services, two helicopters and three dog squadrons, the police chased after the offender who fled on foot, the investigators have now announced.
Two police officers were injured in the later shooting.
France: knife attacker holds young woman hostage for over two hours - then he starts shooting
The hostage-taking occurred while he was on the run.
The man broke into an apartment and held a young woman hostage there for two and a half hours.
Then he opened fire from there.
He was hit and only succumbed to his injuries shortly after his arrest.
The French police have been complaining about a lack of political support for months. Attacks on officials are becoming more frequent and brutal. At the end of April, a female police officer was fatally injured with a knife by a suspected Islamist south of Paris, and drug dealers killed a police officer in Avignon in early May. Last weekend tens of thousands of police officers demonstrated in Paris under the motto “paid to serve, not to die”.
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