French police shoot dead homeless man after knife threat
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The incident took place in a public park on Sunday evening.
Bystanders called the emergency services when they saw the man, who was in his fifties, trying to kill himself.
He had already made cuts in the veins of both arms as well as his
throat and the back of his ankles when the police arrived on the scene,
the prosecutor’s office in the nearby city of Nice said.
The police tried in vain to get him to drop his knife.
When they failed, they tried to immobilise him with a stun gun but
the man lunged at an officer with his knife, according to the
prosecutor’s office.
The officer’s colleague then “used his service weapon and fired
twice”, killing the man, the investigators said, adding that the
emergency services, who were at the scene, tried but failed to revive
the victim.
Police in Nice are investigating the incident as is the national police oversight body, the IPGN.
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