French police launched a manhunt for the suspect in a stabbing of a policewoman in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre near the city of Nantes. LA CHAPELLE-SUR-ERDRE: French police on Friday detained a man suspected of badly wounding a policewoman in a stabbing in the west of France, with the security forces on edge after a spate of attacks on their ranks in the last months.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin was on his way to the scene, his ministry said. He said on Twitter that the individual arrested was suspected of carrying out the attack.AdvertisementLa Chapelle-sur-Erdre is a small town of 20,000 inhabitants just north of Nantes near the French Atlantic coast. Earlier this month, officer Eric Masson was shot dead while investigating activity at a known drug-dealing site in the southern city of Avignon.
Several attacks over the last year have reignited concerns about the spread of radical Islam inside France as well as immigration.
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