Attack occurred in the afternoon, near Porto Velho (Le Vieux Port), an area also known for drug trafficking
French police killed, on Tuesday (2), a man who stabbed several people in downtown Marseille, the second largest city in the . The attack occurred in the afternoon, near Porto Velho (Le Vieux Port), an area also known for drug trafficking. According to prosecutor Nicolas Bessone, the aggressor – a Tunisian – injured five people, one of which is in a critical condition. Among the victims are the manager of a hotel, where the man had been expelled for not paying the stay, the manager’s son, a client and two passers -by.
Witnesses reported that agents quickly arrived at the scene. One resident said the police tried to stop the suspect in front of a fast food restaurant. At that moment, he would have tried to attack one of the agents with a knife. “The policeman shouted, ‘stop, stop’ before we hear the shots,” he said. Another witness said he saw the attacker armed with “two large knives of butcher.”
*With information from AFP
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