Saint-Denis de la Reunion: A man suspected of being a radicalised Islamist shot and wounded two policemen on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion as they tried to arrest him on Thursday, authorities said.
"The man refused to be arrested and fired a rifle at police," a local government official on the island said, adding that the suspect -- a man in his 20s believed to be a recent convert to Islam -- was now in custody.
The lives of the two officers are not in danger.
The attack on Reunion comes a week after a French policeman was shot and killed and two others wounded on Paris' Champs Elysses avenue. That attack was claimed by the ISIS.
A jihadist network, the first in a French overseas territory, was smashed in Reunion in June 2015. Its leader, a 21-year-old known as "The Egyptian", was arrested and transferred to Paris.
The local government official said Thursday's assailant was also "suspected of being radicalised".
It "shows that policemen are in danger throughout the national territory and not only in certain areas as judges would have us believe," it added.
"The man refused to be arrested and fired a rifle at police," a local government official on the island said, adding that the suspect -- a man in his 20s believed to be a recent convert to Islam -- was now in custody.
The lives of the two officers are not in danger.
The attack on Reunion comes a week after a French policeman was shot and killed and two others wounded on Paris' Champs Elysses avenue. That attack was claimed by the ISIS.
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A jihadist network, the first in a French overseas territory, was smashed in Reunion in June 2015. Its leader, a 21-year-old known as "The Egyptian", was arrested and transferred to Paris.
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The local government official said Thursday's assailant was also "suspected of being radicalised".
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It "shows that policemen are in danger throughout the national territory and not only in certain areas as judges would have us believe," it added.
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