The deceased was identified as having been born in January 1984 in Sudan and was not known to the authorities, according to the same source.
The police opened fire after using the taser against him, to no avail, said the prosecutor’s office, which has launched an investigation into the incident.
Shortly before 3 am “the police services received a call about a threatening person, wearing a djellaba and holding a butcher knife, who was at the Butte tram station (…) in the 19th arrondissement of Paris”, explained the same source.
When they arrived, they saw “the man holding a butcher knife in one hand and a notebook with words in Arabic in the other.”
After he did not obey the officers’ commands to drop the knife and despite the repeated use of a taser, “the man began to run towards them, always holding the butcher knife,” the prosecution continued.
“According to the first data, four police officers used their weapons by shooting about 20 times,” he concluded. No police officers were injured, but those who used their weapons were taken to hospital in a state of “shock”, the prosecutor’s office said.
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