A woman was shot and killed by a police officer, when she had just stabbed one of her colleagues, this Monday evening in Bordeaux – Elsa Provenzano / 20Minutes
She had been hospitalized Monday evening in a state of absolute emergency. The woman “suffering from psychiatric disorders” who stabbed a police officer in Bordeaux on Monday before being seriously hit by a retaliatory shot, died Tuesday from her injuries, the Bordeaux prosecutor announced in the evening. Elodie D., 33, “was declared dead at 1 p.m.,” said the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office to AFP.
Monday, the police, contacted by the husband of the young woman, intervened at the home of the couple, at the bottom of a dead end in the Saint-Genès district in Bordeaux, while the thirty-something was entrenched “in the bathroom” and “Army of knives”.
She had shouted “Allah Ouakbar” and “disbelievers”
During this intervention by the police, she shouted “Allah Ouakbar” and, on several occasions, “disbelievers”, according to the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office. The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office (Pnat) was notified but “at this stage of the investigations, did not seize the facts”, indicated the same source during the day.
According to the details provided on Tuesday by the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office, the thirty-something “threw himself” on the first policeman intervening, who then “fired a bullet with a flash ball”, or launcher of defense ball (LBD). “The woman fell to her knees and as she got up, stabbed her in the leg.”
Numerous books and religious documentation relating to Salafism
A second policeman “positioned behind his colleague, heard the latter shout:” She touched me! ” and used his service weapon – a 9mm Sigsauer ”, hitting the young woman in the head, who“ collapsed to the ground ”. The Bordeaux prosecutor “was able to observe in the studio the presence of numerous books and religious documentation relating to Salafism, a priori from rigorous official literature”.
The prosecution seized the judicial police for “acts of aggravated violence with a weapon and on a person holding public authority” and the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police), the “police police” in order to verify whether the police shooting was legitimate. Investigations are continuing.