Reka Polonyi, a 30-year-old university professor who lives in a building facing the station, said she saw police “shout at a man who was walking quickly towards them”.
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On 11 January 2015, a huge protest against the attacks was held in Paris.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to be publicly named according to police policy. Islamic State extremists have claimed responsibility for the mass killings.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Investigators searching an apartment in Brussels uncovered the fingerprint of a fugitive in the November 13 Paris attacks, as well as possible suicide belts and traces of the same kind of explosives used in the bombings that night, the federal prosecutor’s office said Friday.
Eleven months before, armed men killed 17 people in separate attacks targeting Charlie Hebdo, a magazine known for mocking politicians and religious leaders, and a kosher supermarket. It is signed with a different name than the one given to police in the south of France, and the author claims to be Tunisian, he added.
Hollande is trying to push through a controversial new measure that calls for anyone with dual nationality convicted of terrorism to lose French citizenship. Since then, France has declared a state of emergency and closed three mosques thought to have been “radicalizing” their members. “In a country where the level of threat is extremely high, the police, gendarmes, the security forces… are on the frontline”, he said.
It’s become a shrine for those killed by terrorists in France.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry noted that solidarity on Thursday. “But what was meant to sow fear and division has, in fact, brought us together”.
The man was shot dead by officers as he ran towards the entrance of the police station waving the meat cleaver and shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) on Thursday, exactly a year to the day since the massacre of journalists at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
Mastioucha Peres, 30, from Paris, lights candles Thursday during a gathering that marks one year after the attacks on Charlie…
“We came without fear and without hatred to remember our heroes of ink and paper”, sang the artist who was a frequent target of Cabu, one of the slain Charlie cartoonists.
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“This past year we’ve had to invest [about $2.2 million] to secure our office, which is an enormous sum”, he said. “Move back.” Mukenge said officers fired twice and the man immediately dropped to the ground.
