It was around 11:30 am this Saturday, July 31 when the police officers of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) were called for “
an unwanted individual
” at the post office on boulevard Paul Vaillant-Couturier. While the police were preparing to check his identity, the man in his thirties aimed at them with a knife and aimed at the torso. He eventually gave the first policeman two violent blows on the hand who was trying to subdue him. The police had to use a taser to control the assailant. He was then arrested and taken to the police station.
Originally from Guyana, his motivations are still unknown. "There
is nothing terrorist about this attack, it was simply a man who did not have all his mental faculties
", confirms to
Figaro
, Julien Schenardi, regional secretary of the Alliance 94 union. The policeman, seriously injured in the tendons of the main, when he was taken to Charles Foix hospital in Ivry-sur-Seine for surgery.