French policewoman stabbed by ex-prisoner on threat watch list

French policewoman stabbed by ex-prisoner on threat watch list

A radicalised French ex-prisoner on a watch list of potential terrorist threats stabbed a policewoman inside her station in western France on Friday before being killed in a shoot-out with police, a government minister said.

The victim was seriously wounded but expected to survive, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.

The assailant had been released from prison in March following an eight-year sentence for violent crime and was on a security services register for individuals who might pose a terrorism risk.

“He was flagged in 2016 for a strict practice of Islam, for radicalisation,”…

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