In Val-de-Marne, a man armed with two sabers was shot by the police this Sunday. He could suffer from “schizophrenia”.
A saber attack. Sunday, February 16, between 5.30 p.m. and 5:40 p.m., a man was seriously injured in the chest and arm by two police shots after threatening several agents with sabers in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne). According to information from Parisianthe man watched shirtless in the streets of the city, in possession of a saber in each hand.
While he wanted to attack the police, the head of a crew made fire twice against him. The newspaper specifies that despite major injuries, the vital prognosis for the Sabers holder was no longer engaged on Sunday evening. The police officer who shot the assailant twice is “also the one who has provided first aid to man with two sabers” before taking care of the SAMU. No policeman was injured during shots.
Two surveys opened by the Créteil prosecution
In the words of the Créteil prosecution, it is actually a police officer who was not in service – and not the team on patrol that day – who alerted his colleagues earlier from the presence of an armed individual in the streets of the city, when he was “jogging” according to News17. “The crew of the Val-de-Marne security and intervention company did not go to a special intervention,” said the newspaper Le Parisien.
After the clashes, the Créteil prosecution opened two investigations. A first for attempted voluntary homicide on the police. The Departmental Judicial Police Service of Val-de-Marne (SDPJ 94) is seized of the investigations. The second concerns the police ‘response from the policeman during the intervention and was entrusted to the IGPN.She will be responsible for shedding light on the use by one of the police officers of her weapon.
Sunday evening, the track of a man suffering from psychological disorders was privileged. A source describes the saber assailant, born in Vitry-sur-Seine as “a man suffering from schizophrenia and breaking up from the daily Le Parisien. “At this stage, the prosecution favors the hypothesis of an unbalanced”, abounds on its side Bfmtv.