PARIS (Reuters) -French police carried out an operation on Friday afternoon in the Montparnasse train station in the centre of Paris and ordered its evacuation, a Reuters witness saw. (Reporting by
Police Shoot Knife-Wielding Man at Montparnasse Train Station
Incident Overview
PARIS (Reuters) -French police shot and wounded a knife-wielding man in Montparnasse train station in central Paris on Friday, the city prosecutor's office said.
Details of the Shooting
A police officer shot the 34-year-old man in the leg and he then stabbed himself in the throat, the prosecutor's office said in a statement, adding: "He was quickly taken care of by emergency services."
Witness Reactions
A police source told Reuters the man was in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Impact on Commuters
A passer-by was hit in the foot by one of the shots fired by police, the prosecutor's statement said.
The man had waved a knife at officers who were waiting for him at Montparnasse as part of an investigation of domestic violence carried out by police in a southern suburb of Paris.
A Reuters photographer who was at the station when the incident occurred said the incident had caused panic among commuters and weekend travellers, just a day after France marked the 10th anniversary of attacks by a jihadist group in Paris in which 130 people were killed.
"The memory of the attacks on November 13 (2015) is still there," said one witness, Elvire Vaisse. "I thought to myself, 'Here we go again.' Suddenly I felt really stressed."
(Reporting by Stephane Mahe, Alessandro Parodi and Inti Landauro; writing by Richard Lough; editing by Philippa Fletcher and Gareth Jones)
