Police overpower man threatening officers with knives in Paris: Police

The officers confronted the man in the courtyard of the building and used a Taser and rubber bullets to overpower him

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Updated At : 03:58 AM Oct 31, 2020 IST

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Paris, October 30

Police overpowered a man in the French capital Paris on Friday when he threatened officers with two knives after they challenged him, a police source said.

The officers intervened after police received a call reporting that a man armed with a knife was knocking on his neighbour’s door in a southwestern district of the city.

The officers confronted the man in the courtyard of the building and used a Taser and rubber bullets to overpower him, the source said.

No one else was hurt.

The incident took place a day after three people were killed in a knife attack in the southeastern city of Nice. The motive for this incident was not immediately clear. Reuters

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