(AFP) French police shot and injured a knife-wielding man in the northeastern city of Metz on Sunday, two days after a suspected Islamist radical stabbed a man to death near Paris, investigators said.
Metz public prosecutor Christian Mercuri told AFP the man in Sunday’s incident, who was known to police both “for his radicalisation and for a personality disorder,” shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is greater) before being shot.
A police source told AFP the suspect, who was born in 1989, threatened officers when they arrived on the scene and that they fired shots to overpower him.
“He is injured but his life is not in danger,” the source said, adding that no-one else was hurt.
