Off-Duty Police Officer Stabbed in Paris, Interior Minister Says

Off-Duty Police Officer Stabbed in Paris, Interior Minister Says
A police tape in Paris in a file photo. Kiran Ridley/Getty Images
Reuters
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PARIS—An off-duty police officer was stabbed and seriously wounded in Paris on Sunday, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.

Darmanin said in a Twitter post that an investigation had been opened and everything was being done to find the perpetrator. He did not give a motive for the stabbing.

Quoting a police source, BFM TV said the police officer was stabbed after an altercation with four or five people in a shopping mall.