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Posted on November 14, 2025
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Paris police shot a knife-wielding man at Montparnasse station, causing commuter panic. The incident is linked to a domestic violence probe.
PARIS (Reuters) -French police shot and wounded a knife-wielding man in Montparnasse train station in central Paris on Friday, the city prosecutor's office said.
A police officer shot the 34-year-old man in the leg and he then stabbed himself in the throat, the prosecutor's office said in a statement, adding: "He was quickly taken care of by emergency services."
A police source told Reuters the man was in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
A passer-by was hit in the foot by one of the shots fired by police, the prosecutor's statement said.
The man had waved a knife at officers who were waiting for him at Montparnasse as part of an investigation of domestic violence carried out by police in a southern suburb of Paris.
A Reuters photographer who was at the station when the incident occurred said the incident had caused panic among commuters and weekend travellers, just a day after France marked the 10th anniversary of attacks by a jihadist group in Paris in which 130 people were killed.
"The memory of the attacks on November 13 (2015) is still there," said one witness, Elvire Vaisse. "I thought to myself, 'Here we go again.' Suddenly I felt really stressed."
(Reporting by Stephane Mahe, Alessandro Parodi and Inti Landauro; writing by Richard Lough; editing by Philippa Fletcher and Gareth Jones)
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