Two policewomen were slightly injured in the face this Thursday, December 2 by a 36-year-old man armed with a saber, who had just stolen a car in Cherbourg (Manche) before being neutralized by a third police officer, the prosecution told AFP.
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Thursday around 3:45 p.m., the man, who had just stolen a Citroën C3 by threatening the driver with his saber, lost control of the vehicle, near a service station in Tourlaville, a former town attached to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin .
Just then a police patrol was passing.
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He threw himself on the policewomen with a saber and wounded them in the face
", told AFP Yves Le Clair, public prosecutor in Cherbourg, who spoke of "
superficial wounds
" and dismissed any terrorist motivation .
The third patrol officer then shot the suspect, hitting him three times.
Aware of the arrival of help, the suspect was evacuated by helicopter to the hospital in Caen.
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During an intervention on a vehicle theft in Cherbourg, two police officers were injured.
Support for the national police
, ”Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin commented on Twitter.
