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Chilling video of a driver being shot dead by police after he refused to get out of his car has emerged in France.
The film shows officers pointing guns at the unnamed suspect, who was allegedly brandishing a knife, as he sat at the wheel of a Renault Scenic on Saturday afternoon.
They initially shout ‘Get out of the car!’ and then smash its windows with their truncheons, as he accelerates forward into the apartment block where he lived with his mother.
The man, who was being treated for psychiatric problems, managed to then drive up a grassy bank, but died from his wounds soon afterwards.
The drama unfolded on the Kennedy housing estate in Chalette-sur-Loing, close to Orleans, and some 70 miles south of Paris, on Saturday afternoon.
The armed officers who shot the man will be placed under formal investigation, and may face charges if they are deemed to have used unnecessary force.