Overview
- The Gifi deputy manager who chased and stabbed a man accused of stealing a cash register in Paris’s 16th arrondissement was brought before an investigating judge and placed under formal investigation for attempted homicide, while the wounded alleged thief remains hospitalized.
- Investigators say the suspect sprayed cashiers with tear gas before fleeing and was then pursued into the street, where the employee used a store knife to inflict multiple wounds before bringing him back inside the shop.
- Six people, including a minor, were placed under formal investigation in Paris over the kidnapping of a Grenoble magistrate and her mother tied to a cryptocurrency ransom demand, with the national organized crime prosecutor’s office (Pnaco) co‑seized and several suspects ordered into pretrial detention.
- In the Gobelins area of Paris, police shot a knife‑wielding man who threatened a bus driver after a Taser failed to stop him; authorities reported no other injuries and later said his condition was life‑threatening following earlier conflicting indications.
- Two off‑duty Marseille officers were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison, including one year under electronic monitoring, with five‑year bans from police service and carrying arms, while prosecutors separately sought suspended prison terms for nine CRS over a 2018 Burger King beating, with judgment due March 17.