Overview
- Authorities report the confrontation occurred around 2:30 p.m. local time on a platform at Gare Montparnasse after the man produced a knife.
- A railway police officer shot the suspect in the leg during the arrest, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
- The 44-year-old was being sought in an investigation tied to threats against his former wife and had been tracked to a high-speed train from Rennes.
- Prosecutors say the suspect inflicted knife wounds to his own neck during the incident and received emergency medical care.
- One passenger on the platform sustained a leg injury, and officials opened probes into assault on a public official and the officer’s use of a firearm; the national anti-terror office is not involved.