Knife attack near Champs-Élysées: police officer injured, assailant neutralized

A policeman was injured with a knife on Thursday, July 18, near the Champs-Elysées, in the 8^th arrondissement of Paris. Law enforcement officers opened fire on the attacker, seriously wounding him, according to a police source speaking anonymously to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The man later died from his wounds on Thursday, a source in the prosecutor’s office who requested not to be named told AFP. He added that a criminal investigation had been launched into the man’s attack on the officer.

The attack happened after the assailant was turned away from a Louis Vuitton store.The injured policeman “was responding to a call from officers securing a store,” wrote Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on X, offering his “unwavering support” to law enforcement. “At the sight of the police, the man fled with a knife in his hand and, during a U-turn, wounded a policeman in the ear,” added another police source, without specifying the seriousness of the policeman’s injury.