A person has been shot useless by police within the southern French metropolis of Marseille after 5 individuals had been wounded in a resort and a close-by road.
The person was armed with two knives and a baton and had ignored police warnings to drop his weapons, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone advised reporters.
He had been evicted from the resort for unpaid lease and attacked one individual in his outdated room, earlier than stabbing the resort supervisor and his son, the prosecutor stated.
Witnesses described listening to pictures ring out in entrance of a kebab restaurant not removed from the Previous Port in Marseille shortly earlier than 15:00 (13:00 GMT) on Tuesday.
Nicolas Bessone described the suspected attacker as a Tunisian nationwide who was legally resident in France however recognized to police.
After being thrown out of the resort, he stated the person had returned armed with knives and attacked three individuals, earlier than occurring to the snack bar the place he tried to stab the supervisor.
Clients chased him away from the restaurant on Cours Belsunce, a couple of minutes’ stroll from the Previous Port. Police then arrived on the scene the place they opened fireplace with a taser and weapons.
One of many victims stabbed on the resort was in a crucial situation, the prosecutor stated, and the opposite two had been additionally critically wounded.
Inside Minister Bruno Retailleau was as a result of go to the scene of the assault in a while Tuesday.
Marseille Mayor Benoît Payan expressed his full help to all these caught up in Tuesday’s assault and praised police for his or her fast response. “The safety of the men and women of Marseille is my precedence,” he wrote on social media.
