{"id":121640,"date":"2021-05-06T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T08:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121640"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T08:20:15","slug":"french-police-officer-shot-dead-in-avignon-during-drug-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121640","title":{"rendered":"French police officer shot dead in Avignon during drug raid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/French-police-officer-shot-dead-in-Avignon-during-drug-raid-1252627?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/759\/75929852.295.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer was shot dead during an anti-narcotics operation in Avignon, on April 5, 2021\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>A police officer was shot dead during an anti-narcotics operation in Avignon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A French police officer has been shot dead in the city of Avignon during an anti-narcotics operation, Prime Minister Jean Castex said.<br><br>Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said several officers had been shot at during the raid and one had been killed.<br><br>&#8220;The police officer has died. We think of the family and his colleagues during this terrible drama,&#8221; Darmanin said on his Twitter account.<br><br>The shooter is on the run in Avignon, a police union source said. BFM television reported that the shooter had fled the scene on a kick scooter.<br><br>Police union official Vincent Dath said the officer was shot during a raid on a well-known drug-dealing spot.<br><br>&#8220;It looks like this is a narcotics affair, not a terror-related attack,&#8221; Dath said.<br><br>France has suffered a series of fatal attacks on police officers by militants in recent years.<br><br>Late last month, a Tunisian-born man fatally stabbed a police administrative worker as she walked into a police station in a Paris commuter town. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer was shot dead during an anti-narcotics operation in Avignon PARIS, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A French police officer has been shot dead in the city of Avignon during an anti-narcotics operation, Prime Minister Jean Castex said. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said several officers had been shot at during the raid and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}