Police shoot dead suspect after reported decapitation near Paris
16 Oct 2020
PARIS — French police have shot a man dead after a stabbing attack in a suburb northwest of the French capital Paris, local media reported on Friday.
According to local reports, the victim in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine was beheaded but police have not confirmed this.
A man has been stabbed in a suburb north-west of the French capital Paris, media reports say, with the attacker shot dead by police.
The reports suggest the victim in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine was beheaded at around 5 p.m. local time but police have not confirmed this.
French anti-terrorist prosecutors were called in to carry out an investigation into the incident which appears to a terror attack.
France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, traveling to Morocco, is returning urgently to Paris.
Police arrived at the scene after receiving a call about suspicious individual loitering near the school, a police source was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
The French news agency says the officers found the dead man and then sighted the suspect about 200m further in Eragny. He was threatening them with a knife-like weapon. The attacker was then shot dead by police.
The scene is now sealed off, as the investigation continues. — Agencies