Police Suicides In France
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Ex-Policeman's Suicide Ends 35 Year French Serial Killer Mystery
A former policeman suspected of being the serial killer behind some of France's oldest unsolved cases has been found dead after 35 years of dodging arrest, just as police were closing in on his identity.
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Frenchman Held For Alleged Child Molesting Kills Himself: Indonesia Police
A French national detained in Indonesia on suspicion of molesting over hundreds of children has died by apparent suicide, police said Monday.
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French Priest, Accused Of Molesting Girl, Commits Suicide In Church
A 38-year-old French priest in a town in northern France committed suicide in his church after being accused of molesting a girl, local prosecutors and police sources told AFP on Wednesday.
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French Police Officer Kills Three Before Committing Suicide
A 31-year-old French police officer shot three people dead before turning his gun on himself, in a killing spree sparked by a row with his girlfriend.
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Belgian Police Carry Out Series of Raids, 1 Detained
Belgian police carried out a series of raids in Brussels today to find information related to one of the Paris suicide bombers and also detained a person during a separate house search, federal prosecutors said.
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Fate of Paris Attacks 'Mastermind' Unknown After Massive Raid
The fate of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was unknown Wednesday after a massive police raid in a suburb of the city that left at least two dead, including a female suicide bomber.
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Hundreds Flee Gathering in Central Paris in Apparent False Alarm
Hundreds of people who had been gathered at Place de la Republique in central Paris dispersed suddenly on Sunday evening in what police later said seemed to be a false alarm.
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Two More Frenchmen Identified as Paris Attackers: Prosecutor
Police have identified two more French nationals who blew themselves up in the coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday, the prosecutor said, and also put out a request for a Belgian-born man they warned was dangerous.
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Police Detain Relatives of Paris Attacker as Probe Widens
French police today detained relatives and friends of one of the seven gunmen and suicide bombers who killed at least 129 people in a wave of attacks in Paris claimed by the Islamic State group, as the investigation widened.
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Man takes three-year-old son in nine-floor suicide jump after torching ex
A man in eastern France jumped out of the window of his ninth-floor flat with his three-year-old son after torching the child's mother, police said Saturday.
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Paris's Notre Dame evacuated after man commits suicide
A man shot himself dead Tuesday in front of the altar of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, forcing the evacuation of the French capital's famed tourist spot, police told AFP.
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Attack on north Iraq police headquarters kills 30
An assault on a police headquarters in a disputed city in north Iraq involving a car bomb set off by a suicide attacker followed by gunmen trying to storm the compound killed 30 people on Sunday.
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Twin suicide attack at Afghan tribal meeting kills four
Two suicide bombers struck a meeting of community leaders in a southern Afghan town near the border with Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 15, police said.
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Ex-Policeman's Suicide Ends 35 Year French Serial Killer Mystery
A former policeman suspected of being the serial killer behind some of France's oldest unsolved cases has been found dead after 35 years of dodging arrest, just as police were closing in on his identity.
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Frenchman Held For Alleged Child Molesting Kills Himself: Indonesia Police
A French national detained in Indonesia on suspicion of molesting over hundreds of children has died by apparent suicide, police said Monday.
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French Priest, Accused Of Molesting Girl, Commits Suicide In Church
A 38-year-old French priest in a town in northern France committed suicide in his church after being accused of molesting a girl, local prosecutors and police sources told AFP on Wednesday.
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French Police Officer Kills Three Before Committing Suicide
A 31-year-old French police officer shot three people dead before turning his gun on himself, in a killing spree sparked by a row with his girlfriend.
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Belgian Police Carry Out Series of Raids, 1 Detained
Belgian police carried out a series of raids in Brussels today to find information related to one of the Paris suicide bombers and also detained a person during a separate house search, federal prosecutors said.
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Fate of Paris Attacks 'Mastermind' Unknown After Massive Raid
The fate of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was unknown Wednesday after a massive police raid in a suburb of the city that left at least two dead, including a female suicide bomber.
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Hundreds Flee Gathering in Central Paris in Apparent False Alarm
Hundreds of people who had been gathered at Place de la Republique in central Paris dispersed suddenly on Sunday evening in what police later said seemed to be a false alarm.
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Two More Frenchmen Identified as Paris Attackers: Prosecutor
Police have identified two more French nationals who blew themselves up in the coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday, the prosecutor said, and also put out a request for a Belgian-born man they warned was dangerous.
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Police Detain Relatives of Paris Attacker as Probe Widens
French police today detained relatives and friends of one of the seven gunmen and suicide bombers who killed at least 129 people in a wave of attacks in Paris claimed by the Islamic State group, as the investigation widened.
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Man takes three-year-old son in nine-floor suicide jump after torching ex
A man in eastern France jumped out of the window of his ninth-floor flat with his three-year-old son after torching the child's mother, police said Saturday.
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Paris's Notre Dame evacuated after man commits suicide
A man shot himself dead Tuesday in front of the altar of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, forcing the evacuation of the French capital's famed tourist spot, police told AFP.
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Attack on north Iraq police headquarters kills 30
An assault on a police headquarters in a disputed city in north Iraq involving a car bomb set off by a suicide attacker followed by gunmen trying to storm the compound killed 30 people on Sunday.
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Twin suicide attack at Afghan tribal meeting kills four
Two suicide bombers struck a meeting of community leaders in a southern Afghan town near the border with Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 15, police said.
