Overview

• Officers confronted the suspect near the Pierre-Sémard nursery around school dismissal and say he advanced despite orders to drop a large machete.
• Police deployed a taser twice without effect before firing six shots toward the lower body; the man died despite emergency care.
• The Toulon prosecutor opened a criminal inquiry into alleged armed violence and an IGPN review of the police use of firearms.
• Follow-up reporting identifies the deceased as a Sudanese man in his 30s with prior weapons convictions and a five-year ban on possessing arms.
• No children were injured; pupils were confined and support services were deployed, and a separate machete-related police shooting in Seine-et-Marne on September 19 has intensified scrutiny of such cases.