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By APD writer Aditya Nugraha
PARIS, Oct. 4 (APD) - Preliminary results of investigation in the knife attack on Paris police that killed four in Paris police headquarters on Thursday suggested that it was not related to radicalism or terrorism, a government spokeswoman said on Friday.
France’s police union officials suggested that the attack may have been related to workplace dispute.
The wife of the attack perpetrator, Mickaël Harpon, 45, told the police that Harpon had a disagreement with his bosses and felt his work was unappreciated. Harpon was also described as 70 percent deaf.
Harpon converted to Islam 18 months ago, and had recently stopped talking to female colleagues in the office, reports said. French officials are now trying to find out exact motive for the killings.
Harpon was a 45-year-old IT specialist who had worked for the Paris headquarters for 16 years in intelligence division, according to the interior minister
Harpon's wife is currently taken into police’s custody. She has not been charged, Paris prosecutor's office said.
Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz said that Harpon gone into the building and went straight to his office where he began attacking colleagues with a knife on Thursday noon.
He stabbed three people inside two offices and two women on a stairway, before he was shot dead by an officer inside the building's courtyard, Heitz said. The killed ones were three men and one woman.
The fifth victim, a woman, underwent a surgery in a hospital for her fatal injury from the attack.
The attack prompted police to seal off the police headquarters premises, which is located near Paris’ major tour spots, including Notre Dame Cathedral. A subway station near the police headquarters was also shut down in security measures.
France President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Interior Minister Christophe Castaner have visited the site.
The killings came a day after police went on strike across France over increasing violence towards officers.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
