French police on Thursday shot and killed a person wielding a machete close to a college within the southeastern city of La Seyne-sur-Mer, prosecutors mentioned.
The “threatening” particular person refused to adjust to police orders and moved in the direction of the officers, who first used an electroshock weapon after which fired six photographs on the man, mentioned public prosecutor Samuel Finielz.
He mentioned they aimed on the man’s decrease physique however he died of his accidents on the scene.
The incident befell shortly earlier than 5:00 pm close to a nursery faculty, based on a police supply.
“It seems that the kids had been threatened,” Finielz mentioned, including that nobody was harmed.
Officers arriving on the scene noticed the person carrying a weapon that gave the impression to be a machete “with a blade a number of dozen centimetres lengthy”, he mentioned.
They ordered him “to drop his weapon on the bottom, which he didn’t do,” he mentioned.
The incident befell as a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals throughout France took to the streets in a present of anger over the federal government’s austerity insurance policies.
French authorities have been beneath strain to crack down on crime close to colleges following a collection of knife assaults on lecturers and college students lately.
