Police Officer Fires Weapon After Suspect Uses Tear Gas in Khemisset Robbery Arrest

According to a press release from the General Directorate of National Security, the 27-year-old man had assaulted a citizen on Saturday morning, near the city’s hospital, stealing his mobile phone.

The individual then put up fierce resistance, attacking the police with a tear gas canister and a bladed weapon. Seeing his colleague asphyxiated by the toxic gas, a sergeant was forced to draw his service weapon and fire a shot at the aggressor.

The press release adds that the use of the service weapon made it possible to neutralize the suspect, who was placed under medical supervision at the Ibn Sina University Hospital, pending the results of the investigation conducted by the judicial police unit in Khemisset.