{"id":262865,"date":"2025-11-14T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262865\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:06:08","slug":"armed-police-shoot-man-seen-brandishing-knife-at-paris-train-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262865\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police shoot man seen \u2018brandishing knife\u2019 at Paris train station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police<\/a> shot a knife-wielding man at Montparnasse station in Paris, after he had threatened his wife and children before boarding a train. <\/p>\n

The major train station<\/a> in Paris<\/a> was evacuated as officers confronted the man on Friday afternoon, after he had made the threats before taking a train destined for Montparnasse.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor\u2019s office said an officer used his \u201cweapon\u201d on the man at Montparnasse station, who then inflicted knife wounds on himself. A witness told Reuters they heard several shots. <\/p>\n

Police were waiting for the man \u2013 reported in French media to be a 44-year-old originally from Wallis and Futuna \u2013 upon his arrival. When officers confronted the man, he threatened to take his own life and was then shot in the legs, the source said. <\/p>\n

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Passengers wait inside the Montparnasse train station in Paris on Friday after the incident (AFP via Getty)<\/p>\n

A high-ranking police source has reportedly indicated that terrorism has been ruled out as a motivation at this stage, BFMTV reported.<\/p>\n

The man was travelling on board a OUIGO train connecting Rennes to Paris, arriving at Montparnasse station at 3:02pm local time (2:02pm GMT), Le Parisien reported. <\/p>\n

A witness told BFMTV he heard a loud bang before panic broke out around him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me two or three seconds to realise what was happening. People started saying, \u2018We have to get out of here, we have to leave quickly,\u2019 so that got my heart racing and I got up and ran,\u201d the witness told the news network. <\/p>\n

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A firefighter van is seen parked at a platform of the train station (AFP via Getty)<\/p>\n

The police intervention caused a crowd surge through the concourse, a Reuters photographer at the station said when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n

Authorities evacuated the station, which serves suburban commuter routes and high-speed trains headed to the country\u2019s west and southwest. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears from the initial information we have received that a man known for domestic violence had brandished a knife, and that a police officer used his weapon to stop him,\u201d the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man then allegedly stabbed himself.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondentsGet a weekly dispatch from our international…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-262865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}