A Sudanese man was shot dead early Saturday after he allegedly threatened police with a meat cleaver in a Paris train station.
The unidentified man, who was clad in an Arab-style robe, was at Butte Duhat Rouge station around 3 a.m. when he was spotted with the weapon as he “brandished a Koranic book,” according to journalist Laurent Obertone.
French police tried to subdue the man by tasering him, and when he was asked to drop the meat cleaver, he refused and advanced toward officers, prosecutors said, AFP reported.
Four officers then shot their pistols a total of 20 times, killing him.
French police tried to subdue the man by tasering him, and when he was asked to drop the meat cleaver, he refused and advanced toward officers, prosecutors said. LaurentObertone/XCCTV images show what appears to be the man under a white sheet in the early morning hours after he was shot.
No officer was injured, but they were taken to the hospital in “shock,” prosecutors said.
The assailant was born in Sudan in 1984 and has no previous criminal record, according to AFP.
Four officers shot their pistols a total of 20 times, killing the man, whose body is seen under a sheet in CCTV footage of the tram station. LaurentObertone/XAn investigation into his death is ongoing.
