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Knife Attack at Paris Police Headquarters Injures Officers Knife Attack at Paris Police Headquarters Kills at Least 4 Officers
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PARIS — A man with a knife attacked officers at Paris Police Headquarters on Thursday, leaving several people injured, according to local news reports and union officials. PARIS — At least four police officers were killed on Thursday at Paris Police Headquarters by a police employee with a knife, according to a French police union official.
Jean-Marc Bailleul, a police union official, told the BFM TV news channel that the assailant had been employed at Police Headquarters as an administrative worker. The official from the Alliance Police Nationale union, Loïc Travers, told reporters that the assailant was an administrative employee who had worked at Police Headquarters for more than 20 years.
It was not immediately clear how many officers were wounded, if anyone was killed or what the attacker’s motives might have been. The unidentified attacker was shot and killed by a police officer, Mr. Travers said.
The headquarters of the Paris police prefecture in central Paris did not immediately respond to requests for comment. He said the assailant appeared to have started attacking officers in his office before moving to other areas in the headquarters.
The Paris prosecutor was on the scene, according to the prosecutor’s office. No further information was released. “The motive is not yet known,” Mr. Travers added.
The attack came a day after tens of thousands of police officers demonstrated in Paris in anger over what they said were bad working conditions and a lack of public respect, and over several police suicides this year. The headquarters of the Paris police prefecture in central Paris, near Notre Dame, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Paris prosecutor was on the scene, his office said, giving no further information.
The severity of the assault will most likely rekindle concerns about how the French capital has become a target of terrorists, most notably with the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in 2015 and a series of coordinated attacks in a nighttime rampage across the city later that year that left more than 100 dead.
In 2017, a veteran police officer, Xavier Jugelé, was shot and killed during a terrorist attack on the Champs-Élysées.In 2017, a veteran police officer, Xavier Jugelé, was shot and killed during a terrorist attack on the Champs-Élysées.
The attack came a day after tens of thousands of police officers demonstrated in Paris in anger over what they said were bad working conditions and a lack of public respect, and over several police suicides this year.