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Suspect in Montparnasse Knife Incident Indicted and Ordered Into Pretrial Detention

A hospital hearing yielded a detention order, with the officer’s use of force under IGPN review.

Overview

  • Prosecutors said the 44-year-old was placed under formal investigation and remanded after a hospital hearing, following the opening of a judicial inquiry for violence against a public official with a weapon without incapacitating injury.
  • He remains hospitalized for a self-inflicted throat wound and a through wound to the thigh from police gunfire.
  • According to the Paris prosecutor, the officer warned the man multiple times before firing toward his legs and the account was corroborated by body-worn camera; the officer’s custody was lifted and his weapon was seized.
  • Security video showed the man running on the platform and making large gestures, and police recovered a kitchen knife, a cutter, a bottle of alcohol, and an unarmed pellet gun from his bag.
  • The man had a recent domestic-violence conviction and, after new threats reported on November 9, police awaited his arrival from Rennes; a passerby in his fifties was injured in the foot during the police gunfire.