Police overpower man threatening officers with knives in Paris: Police source

French police patrol in Montmartre district in Paris, on Oct 30, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

PARIS (REUTERS) - Police overpowered a man in the French capital Paris on Friday (Oct 30) when he threatened officers with two knives after they challenged him, a police source said.

The officers intervened after police received a call reporting that a man armed with a knife was knocking on his neighbour's door in a southwestern district of the city.

The officers confronted the man in the courtyard of the building and used a Taser and rubber bullets to overpower him, the source said. No one else was hurt.

The incident took place a day after three people were killed in a knife attack in the southeastern city of Nice. The motive for this incident was not immediately clear.

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