(Reuters) Police officers shot dead a man who threatened them with a knife in the Paris business district of La Defense on Friday, police sources said.
A security man had alerted police to the presence of a man armed with a knife in La Defense Square.
The suspect rushed towards the three-men patrol that had gone to check the situation, wielding the knife and shouting: “I am going to kill you,” the sources said.
Seven shots were fired, with two shots hitting the man in the chest and in the thigh.
The man, a 42-year-old Moroccan, had escaped from a psychiatric ward in June, a police source said.
