It was 4.15 a.m. on Saturday morning, March 1, when three police officers from the Brigade Anticriminalité (BAC) from Boulogne-sur-Mer stopped on patrol in a car park at the foot of the René-Descartes residence, a few metres from Rue Marlborough in Saint-Martin-Boulogne.
‘They had spotted a suspicious man in a car,’ reports Grégory Claudevel, senior representative of the Alliance union in the region. ‘When the police officers questioned him from their vehicle, he insulted them,’ explained Boulogne prosecutor Guirec Le Bras. He added that the man ‘accosted them so that they would come towards him’. At that moment, ‘he pulled out two knives and made death threats’. (…)
(…) and threatens the officers, shouting ‘Allah Akbar’. (…)
According to the prosecutor’s account, the police officers from the Brigade Anti-Criminalité were in an ‘area affected by burglaries’ when they saw the man and approached him from their vehicle. The man then pulled out two knives and made death threats. As the man ran off with his weapons, they followed him, whereupon he ran towards them and told them to shoot. A first police officer used a stun gun twice and then a laser pointer (LBD), which had no effect.
The man backed away and then jumped at the police officers a second time. Another police officer then fired two shots from his firearm, injuring him in the thigh. The police officers later discovered that the man had ‘wrapped his upper body with cardboard boxes’.
The 40-year-old was already known to the judiciary and had been convicted four times between 2012 and 2023 by the criminal court in Boulogne-sur-Mer for driving under the influence of drugs, drug abuse, death threats and insulting a person of public authority.