French Policewoman Stabbed by Ex-Prisoner on Potential Threat Watch List

French Policewoman Stabbed by Ex-Prisoner on Potential Threat Watch List
French gendarmes stand in front of the municipal police after an assailant stabbed and badly wounded a policewoman in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, western France, on May 28, 2021. Stephane Mahe/Reuters
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CHAPELLE-SUR-ERDRE, France—A radicalized French ex-prisoner on a watch list of potential terrorist threats stabbed a policewoman inside her station in western France on Friday and died following a shoot-out with police, a government minister said.

The victim was seriously wounded but expected to survive, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.