The attacker killed by the police on Thursday evening is suspected of a murder an hour earlier in Hauts-de-Seine, the prosecution announced.

The man who attacked a police officer in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, on the Champs-Elysées, on Thursday July 18, is also suspected of a murder an hour earlier in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), the Nanterre prosecutor’s office announced on Friday.

The attacker was seriously shot by another police officer on Thursday evening, before succumbing to his injuries, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced in the evening, which has opened an investigation into the incident. “attempted murder of a police officer”.

The police officer, who was stabbed, “is in absolute emergency, but his life is not in danger”said the police chief, Laurent Nuñez, on Thursday. He claims to have exchanged a few words with the victim before she was evacuated. The police chief judges the use of the administrative weapon “completely proportionate”, even if it is up to the judicial investigation to establish it.

Regarding the motive of the main suspect, now deceased, “There is no terrorist motivation at this stage, nor any link to the Olympic Games”said Laurent Nuñez. “A criminal investigation into the attempted murder of a police officer, for which the 1st judicial police district has been notified”was opened, the prosecution also announced on Thursday.