⁍ Police overpowered a man in the French capital Paris on Friday when he threatened officers with two knives.
⁍ The officers intervened after police received a call reporting that a man armed with a knife was knocking on his neighbour’s door.
⁍ The officers confronted the man in the courtyard of the building and used a Taser and rubber bullets to overpower him.
– Police in Paris used a Taser and rubber bullets to subdue a man armed with two knives today after he knocked on his neighbor’s door and threatened them with the weapons, Reuters reports. The incident took place a day after three people were killed in a knife attack in the southeastern city of Nice. The motive for this incident is not immediately clear. The officers intervened after police received a call reporting that a man armed with a knife was knocking on his neighbor’s door in a southwestern district of the city. The officers confronted the man in the courtyard of the building and used a Taser and rubber bullets to overpower him, the source said. No one else was hurt.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-paris/police-overpower-man-threatening-officers-with-knives-in-paris-police-source-idUSKBN27F2DH