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Paris police shoot and wound man with knife at Montparnasse station

Paris police shoot and wound man with knife at Montparnasse station
French police and soldiers secure the area at the Gare Montparnasse train station during its evacuation in Paris, Nov. 14, 2025. (Reuters)
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Paris police shoot and wound man with knife at Montparnasse station

Paris police shoot and wound man with knife at Montparnasse station
  • A police officer shot in the leg the 34-year-old man who then stabbed himself in the throat
  • A passer-by was hit in the foot by one of the shots fired by police, the prosecutor’s statement said

PARIS: French police shot and wounded a knife-wielding man in Montparnasse train station in central Paris on Friday, the city prosecutor’s office said.
A police officer shot in the leg the 34-year-old man who then stabbed himself in the throat, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement, adding: “He was quickly taken care of by emergency services.”
A passer-by was hit in the foot by one of the shots fired by police, the prosecutor’s statement said.
The man had waved a knife at officers who were waiting for him at Montparnasse as part of an investigation of domestic violence carried out by police in a southern suburb of Paris.
He received an 18-months suspended sentence in September on account of several alleged domestic violence offenses, the prosecutor’s office said.
A Reuters photographer who was at the station when the incident occurred said the incident had caused panic among commuters and weekend travelers, just a day after France marked the 10th anniversary of attacks by a jihadist group in Paris in which 130 people were killed.
“The memory of the attacks on November 13 (2015) is still there,” said one witness, Elvire Vaisse. “I thought to myself, ‘Here we go again.’ Suddenly I felt really stressed.”


Italy defense minister says it would be ‘absurd’ not to continue Ukraine aid

Italy defense minister says it would be ‘absurd’ not to continue Ukraine aid
Updated 14 November 2025

Italy defense minister says it would be ‘absurd’ not to continue Ukraine aid

Italy defense minister says it would be ‘absurd’ not to continue Ukraine aid
  • Crosetto said he had signed off on sending a 12th package of support for Kyiv
  • Salvini said this month that Italy could not continue sending money and weapons “for another 50 years“

ROME: It would be “absurd” for Italy not to continue or even increase its military and civilian aid to Ukraine, Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Friday at a meeting with European counterparts in Berlin.
Crosetto said he had signed off on sending a 12th package of support for Kyiv, adding Italy would help Ukraine’s energy supplies during the winter months by sending electrical generators.
“It would seem absurd to me not to continue to do so and indeed not to increase, with all the possibilities we have, our aid to a nation that is doing nothing but defending itself from an absurd and incomprehensible attack,” he said.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been a strong supporter of Ukraine, but some members of her right-wing coalition less so.
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said this month that Italy could not continue sending money and weapons “for another 50 years.”