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French Police Shoot Dead Man for Threatening People with Handgun


Thu 29 Oct 2020 | 01:24 PM
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This morning, French police shot dead a man in the city of Avignon in southern France, after he had threatened passersby with a handgun, according to media reports.

France's Europe 1 radio station reported that the man was chanting "God is the greatest."

Earlier today, French President Emmanuel Macron presided over an Emergency crisis meeting after the mass stabbing that took place this morning near the Notre-Dame church in Nice, resulting in the death of three persons and injury of several others.

Macron is set to head to Nice, where he will talk to media about the incident details.

Nice’s mayor, Christian Estrosi, who described the attack as terrorism, said on Twitter it had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker, according to Reuters.

Estrosi said the attacker had shouted the phrase “Allahu Akbar”, or God is greatest.

"One of the people killed inside the church was believed to be the churchwarden," Estrosi said.​

"The attacker kept shouting “Allahu Akbar” even after he had been detained."

“The suspected knife attacker was shot by police while being detained, he is on his way to the hospital, he is alive,” Estrosi told reporters.