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The 48-year-old suspect has already had law enforcement cases over child custody disputes. A few hours after he escaped from his home in a remote village near the town of Saint-Jean, south of Clermont-Ferrand, he was found dead.
This was announced on Twitter by the French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin.
No further details about the suspect’s death are released.
“Our security forces are risking their lives to protect us. These are our heroes,” President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter.
Immediately after midnight, two police officers who arrived at the home in response to a call for domestic violence were met by gunfire.
A man shot a police officer, wounding his colleague and setting the house on fire. There was a woman on his roof.
The Clermont-Ferrand prosecutor’s office said two more officers who had arrived at the scene had also been shot.
Police reinforcements and firefighters quickly arrived at the scene and all roads leading to that house were blocked.
The woman was rescued, she did not suffer. She is being questioned by the police.
The Interior Ministry said the police officers shot were 21, 37 and 45 years old.
Besides terrorist attacks, police shootings are quite rare in France.
Last May, a man shot at police from his home in the Gironde region of southwestern France, wounding an officer. When he was going to shoot again, the police killed him.
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