An IT employee armed with knife attacked and killed 4 police officers inside Paris police headquarters.
An IT worker armed with knife attacked and killed four police officers inside Paris police headquarters on 3rd of October.
According to officials, a knife-wielding man who worked at police headquarters went on a rampage, stabbing to death 4 employees before himself being shot dead.
Reports also say that a fifth person was critically injured and was being treated in hospital after the deadliest attack.
What was the motive?
As far as reports are concerned, the motive behind the attack is still unclear.
The attacker killed three male officers and a female assistant before being shot in the courtyard of the square stone building next to Notre-Dame cathedral in the historic heart of Paris.
Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said that the attacker, a 45-year-old employee from the IT department in the police intelligence section, had killed three men and a woman.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said, the attacker had never shown any behavioural problems.