A police officer was stabbed with a knife in the southern French city of Cannes on Monday morning, France's interior minister said.
The officer, attacked as he was at the wheel of a vehicle, was saved thanks to his bulletproof vest, police sources told AFP.
A second police officer shot the aggressor, whose condition is life-threatening.
France's interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said on Twitter that he was going to the scene.
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