(Reuters) A man who attacked officers with a knife in a French police barracks was a trainee soldier, officials said, in the second case in four months of a violent assault by someone from within France’s security services.
The assailant struck on Monday afternoon, at a barracks in Dieuze in eastern France, wounding one officer in the arm before he was shot. The knifeman is now in a stable condition in hospital.
An intelligence source named the suspect as 19-year-old Matthias R and said police had searched his military lodging in Dieuze and raided his home in central France but found no obvious links to Islamist militant networks.
