Three French Police Shot Dead While Responding to Domestic Violence Call

Three French Police Shot Dead While Responding to Domestic Violence Call
A member of French National Police Intervention Group forces (GIPN) walks in the nursery school, where a sword-wielding teenager was holding five children and a teacher on Dec. 13 in Besancon, France. Harold Cunningham/Getty Images
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PARIS—Three French police officers were shot dead by a man when they arrived at a home in Saint-Just, a remote commune in central France, to respond to a domestic violence call, police said on Wednesday.

A woman who was the reported victim of the domestic violence had sought refuge on the roof of the house and was subsequently rescued by police, France’s BFMTV broadcaster reported.