Cops V Meste la Seyne-sur-Mer Lying In the southeast of France in the Department of Var, they shot a man on Thursday, whose witnesses saw a machete in his hand near a kindergarten. TASR reports this based on AFP reports and LE Figaro.
The incident occurred around 16.45. Witnesses had previously reported to the police that they saw on the street near the kindergarten a man armed with a covenic weapon with a blade of a few tens of centimeters, which one is verbally threatened to his surroundings, Samuel Finielz from the prosecutor’s office in Toulon said.
A patrol was sent to the site. The cops saw an armed man when they arrived at the place and asked him to put the machete on the ground. When he disobeyed and began to approach them with a machete in his hand, The cops first used the taser twice, but to no avail. After The man continued to threaten, the cops fired at him six times, aiming at the lower body.
The man was then taken to the local hospital, where he died a few minutes later. His identity was not immediately known because he had no documents with him. “Two investigations have been initiated – for violence with a weapon against unidentified persons and for violence with a weapon against people in public office,” said Finielz.
