Assailant With Ceramic Knife Kills 4 Policemen At French Police Headquarters

On Thursday, a man described as a 20-year veteran of the police force who had security clearance went berserk in police headquarters next to Notre Dame Cathedral, murdering four police officers with a ceramic knife before he was shot and killed by another police officer. According to Actu17, two of the dead victims were female police officers.

The Sun reported, “The assailant was armed with a ceramic knife which could not be picked up by metal detectors used by the building’s security, according to sources quoted by one local website.”