Paris policeman kills 2 officers, injures 3 others in knife attack at headquarters

[Dennis Donovan]

Source: NBC

A policeman killed two officers and injured three others in a knife attack inside Paris police headquarters Thursday, the French police union said.

The attacker, an administrative police officer, is also dead, Christophe Crépin spokesperson for the French police union added.

The assailant entered the headquarters around 1 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET), Crépin said. It is unclear how far inside the headquarters he managed to get before he attacked the officers. It is not yet known what sparked the attack.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/paris-policeman-kills-2-officers-injures-3-others-knife-attack-n1061861?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Crime of passion?

doesn't sound like he liked his fellow officers very much. Police suspect foul play.

[Blue_Tires]

7. I wonder if it's related to the ongoing labor dispute?

[Devil Child]

9. Crime is being investigated as an act of islamic terrorism

More info in this article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49945640

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Washington Post reporting 4 police officers killed..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/four-officers-killed-in-paris-police-stabbing-french-media-report/2019/10/03/894a7e28-1a32-4a44-906f-416de12d9798_story.html

[brooklynite]

3. Live blog from France24

https://www.france24.com/en/20191003-live-four-killed-knife-attack-paris-police-hq

[brooklynite]

4. FRANCE24 reporting the assailant was a police officer

[Justice]

5. It says he is a police officer in the OP

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. An IT worker, not a police officer

From the France24 link above:

The attacker, a 45-year-old IT worker at the police headquarters, was described as a model employee and showed no signs of behavioral problems

and:

Parts of central Paris were sealed off on Thursday after an employee at the city’s police headquarters stabbed and killed four colleagues before being shot dead.

The man, who worked in the technology department, reportedly stabbed a colleague in his office with a ceramic knife before turning it on others, with the last attacked in the courtyard outside the historic building near Notre Dame Cathedral.

The victims were three male police officers from the anti-terrorist department at the prefecture and a female administrator in the public security department. A female employee of the human resources department was seriously injured and was operated on at the Percy military hospital.

Officials did not say anything about the motive for the attack.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/03/police-officer-dies-knife-attack-paris-headquarters

[Marengo]

6. Where's the "if he had a gun would be much worse" crew?