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French police officer among three killed near Paris after hostage situation French police officer and partner killed by hostage taker
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Three people including a French police officer have been killed after a hostage situation in a Paris suburb. A French police officer and his partner have been killed at their home by a suspect who was then shot dead when armed police stormed the property north-west of Paris.
A spokesman for France’s interior minister said a police officer, his wife and their attacker had been killed after a stabbing at the officer’s home outside Paris. The spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, said on Monday night that police had managed to rescue a child from the scene. A three-year-old child, believed to be the couple’s son, was rescued unharmed after a siege in Magnanville.
A police source said officers had responded to a hostage situation at a house in Magnanville, about 35 miles (55km) west of the French capital. The suspect was the victim’s neighbour. Authorities said they had tried to negotiate with the suspect, but negotiations failed and they then stormed the house.
Le Parisien reported that the suspect was the victim’s neighbour. Authorities said they had tried to negotiate with the suspect, but negotiations failed and they then stormed the house. The suspect was a neighbour, who authorities had tried to negotiate with before storming the property at around midnight local time, according to French media reports.
Police said the suspect was killed, and they then found a woman dead inside the house but were able to rescue the son safely. The police officer who died was named in the French media as Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, an assistant chief in a nearby district.
More details to follow… He was reported to have been wearing civilian clothes at the time and suffered a number of stomach wounds after he was attacked on his return home.
Officers from the French police’s elite RAID section were involved in attempting to negotiate the surrender of the attacker. A number of small explosions, believed to have been detonated by police, were heard during the raid.
“The toll is a heavy one,” the interior minister’s spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, told reporters at the scene. “This commander, this police officer was killed by the individual … [and] we discovered the body of a woman. The assailant, the criminal, was killed. Thankfully, a little boy was saved. He was in the house. He’s safe and sound. He was saved by police officers.”