what we know about the madman shot dead by the police in a shopping center
Police killed a man armed with a knife on Wednesday in front of the La Valentine shopping center in the 11th arrondissement of Marseille. He was trying to assault officers in the Cultura store.
“Fed up with this world, I made my decision a long time ago and I regret that Putin did not do the job“. These are the last words spoken by the 59-year-old man who was shot dead this Wednesday in Marseille.
“The employees of the Cultura store showed great courage, trying to appease him”, indicates Dominique Laurens, Public Prosecutor of Marseille.
No other injuries are to be deplored. A psychological aid device is activated for the witnesses on the spot.
1 p.m., this Wednesday, a man armed with a knife burst into the Cultura store in the La Valentine shopping area in Marseille (11th).
A crew from the emergency police brigade composed of three people from the southern zone is called.
“He makes incoherent remarks and seems very agitated”, according to the first testimonies.
When the police tried to arrest him, “he threw himself on them to attack them, overturning the shelves“.
“The scene filmed by a witness is extremely violent and lasts a long time”says the prosecutor.
It should all have started in the parking lot. Then the man reportedly entered the Cultura store and began threatening customers.
According to the prosecutor, “the video makes it possible to confirm the versions of the witnesses and the police“.
Despite the intervention of firefighters, the man died of his injuries after receiving two gunshots from the police in the shoulder and chest.
The judicial police and the IGPN are seized.
“The motives are an attempted homicide on the person holding public authority”, specifies the prosecution.
The police were heard under the free hearing regime by the IGPN.
“The first elements favor self-defense“, indicates the Prosecutor.
No other injuries are to be deplored. A psychological aid device is activated for the witnesses on the spot.
“The hypothesis of the terrorist act is ruled out“, adds Dominique Laurens.
Without presuming the first conclusions of the investigation and the psychological state of the attacker, this is the 3rd news item in three days in Marseille. On Monday, a woman was violently assaulted with bare hands in the parking lot of his residence in the 10th arrondissement of Marseille. She died shortly afterwards.
The next day, a father who happened to be looking for his children in a private establishment in the 13th arrondissement was attacked with a knife. He is still in serious condition.