A Sudanese man, aged around forty and armed with a chopper, was shot dead by the police during the night from Friday to Saturday in Paris (19th century).
It was around 3:05 a.m. on Boulevard d'Indochine in front of the "Butte du Chap Rouge" tram station that a man asked another for a light.
The forty-year-old is very virulent, spits on his interlocutor.
He takes out a butcher's leaf from his jacket and seems to want to hit him.
The victim steps back and defends himself by throwing a doorknob.
She asks for help from an RATP agent who passes by.
The two men step back and alert the police.
He refuses to drop his gun
Officials from the anti-crime squad arrive quickly.
They order, in French and English, this disturbing character to drop his weapon.
Without results, man does not understand.
The suspect sits on a bench and the police ask for backup from colleagues equipped with an electric pulse gun.
Four new officials arrive by car.
The man brandishes a Koranic book and threatens them with his blade.
Two police officers use their electric weapons three times to neutralize him.
“The barbs stuck but had no effect.
The man continued to rush at them while running with his chopper in his hand,” said a source close to the case.
Four of the seven officials on site opened fire and fired twenty-two rounds and seven bullets hit the attacker.
Two investigations opened by the prosecution
The officers immediately tried to give him cardiac massage.
They are relayed by the firefighters who quickly arrive on site.
At 3:52 a.m. the man was officially declared dead.
Five civil servants, in a state of shock, were taken care of by firefighters.
A security perimeter is established and forensic technicians identify traces and clues.
The body was transported to the Paris forensic institute to undergo an autopsy.
The prosecution opens two investigations.
The first on violence with weapons against the police entrusted to the second judicial police district.
And a second on the death of this man which is being carried out by the general inspectorate of the national police (IGPN).
The entire scene was captured by police pedestrian cameras.