(AFP) French detectives on Friday referred the investigation into a knife rampage by a staffer at Paris police headquarters that left four colleagues dead to anti-terrorist prosecutors, sources said.
Three police officers and an administrative worker — three men and a woman — died in the frenzied 30-minute attack on Thursday at the police headquarters, a stone’s throw from the Notre-Dame cathedral in the historic heart of Paris.
The assailant, a 45-year-old computer expert, was eventually shot dead by police.
Two other people were injured in the Thursday lunchtime stabbing spree that sent shock waves through an embattled French police force already complaining of low morale.
Sources at the Paris prosecutor’s office, which had been handling the inquiry, said on Friday that the case had been passed to the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (PNAT).
