PARIS: French police shot and wounded a knife-wielding man in Montparnasse train station in central Paris on Friday, the city prosecutor’s office said.
A police officer shot in the leg the 34-year-old man who then stabbed himself in the throat, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement, adding: “He was quickly taken care of by emergency services.”
A passer-by was hit in the foot by one of the shots fired by police, the prosecutor’s statement said.
The man had waved a knife at officers who were waiting for him at Montparnasse as part of an investigation of domestic violence carried out by police in a southern suburb of Paris.
He received an 18-months suspended sentence in September on account of several alleged domestic violence offenses, the prosecutor’s office said.
