He was found to be wearing a pouch taped to his coat with wires dangling from it. However, it later proved to be a “fake” suicide belt. The statement did not provide more details about the claim. France this week commemorates the victims of last year’s Islamic extremist attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and…
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It is understood he tried to enter the station in Barbes brandishing a knife. Asked if the belt was fake, an interior ministry spokesman said: “Yes”.
He has not been identified, and Mr Brandet said that police do not believe anyone else was involved.
A man with a knife has been shot dead while trying to enter a Paris police station. Armed police sealed off neighbouring streets.
“Faced with these adversaries, it is essential that every service – police, gendarmerie, intelligence, military – work in ideal harmony, with the greatest transparency, and that they share all the information at their disposal”, the president said.
A police representative confirmed to CNN that shots were fired near a station.
“The alert is constant”, he told the broadcast network iTele.
“The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for attempted murder on person holding public authority and in connection with a terrorist organisation”.
Sirens are wailing and schools are in lockdown in the Paris neighborhood.
In the aftermath of the shooting, a heavy security presence was in force at the scene near the police station in Goutte D’Or in the 18th arrondissement.
Eleven people were killed when two French-born brothers stormed the building where Charlie Hebdo operated, as well as a Muslim policeman outside on this day in 2015.
The attempted attack took place at 11:30 a.m., the Paris prosecutor’s office said – a year to the minute since the Charlie Hebdo killings, the first of a spate of deadly jihadist attacks that have roiled the French capital over the past 12 months.
A Paris police official said police were investigating the incident at the Paris police station on Thursday as “more likely terrorism” than a standard criminal act. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be publicly named according to police policy.
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Police sealed off the area around the station. She said the police shouted at the man and that he then started running towards them before they shot him.
