A man has been shot dead in Paris after he tried to get
into a police station shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ while wearing a fake suicide
belt.
The man was brandishing a knife on the anniversary of the
Charlie Hebdo massacre on the rue de la Goutte d’Or in Barbes in the city’s
18th arrondissement.
A witness told AFP that officers fired ‘two or three
shots’ on the man, who was killed. He has not yet been identified.
‘On Thursday morning, a man attempted to attack a
policeman at the reception of the police station before being hit by shots from
the police,’ said interior ministry spokesperson Pierre-Henry Brandet.
‘Bomb disposal experts are at the scene working to secure
the site.’The area has now been cordoned off by police.
France pays tribute today to the victims of the Charlie
Hebdo massacre, which happened one year ago.
President Francois Hollande thanked the police who were
killed defending the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and those who tracked down the
killers, Said and Chérif Kouachi and Amédy Coulibaly.
He hailed officers who have been stationed outside
schools, places of worship and at airports and other public places thought to
be at risk following the attacks.
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