Man killed in shootout after attacking three French police officers

French gendarmes and firemen stand near helicopters in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, France, Friday, May 28, 2021. An unidentified assailant stabbed a police officer at her station Friday in western France then shot two other officers before being killed in a shootout with police, authorities said. (AP Photo/Laetitia Notarianni)

A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism has stabbed a police officer at her station in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him, authorities said.

He was a Frenchman in his 40s who had been on a watch list because of his “rigorous” religious practices, interior minister Gerald Darmanin said.