---
title: "French police kill man who threatened officers with knife in Paris"
description: "PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Police officers shot dead a man who threatened them with a knife in the Paris business district of La Defense on Friday, police sources said."
type: "NewsArticle"
publisher: "Daily Maverick"
site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za"
section: "Newsdeck"
author: "Reuters"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/reuters/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-12-13-french-police-kill-man-who-threatened-officers-with-knife-in-paris/"
published: "2019-12-13T15:00:56"
lang: "en-ZA"
word_count: 134
---

# French police kill man who threatened officers with knife in Paris

> PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Police officers shot dead a man who threatened them with a knife in the Paris business district of La Defense on Friday, police sources said.

By Reuters · Published 13 December 2019, 17:00 SAST

## Content

A security man had alerted police to the presence of a man armed with a knife in La Defense Square.

The suspect rushed towards the three-men patrol that had gone to check the situation, wielding the knife and shouting: "I am going to kill you", the sources said.

Seven shots were fired, with two shots hitting the man in the chest and in the thigh.

The man, a 42-year old Moroccan, had escaped from a psychiatric ward in June, a police source said. No further details were immediately available.

In October, an IT worker at police headquarters in Paris killed four co-workers before a police officer shot him dead, an attack which is being investigated by France's anti-terrorism prosecutor.

(Reporting by Sophie Louet, Writing by Dominique Vidalon and Mathieu Rosemain; Editing by Angus MacSwan)