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Police shot dead a man who tried to enter a Paris police station brandishing a butcher’s knife and wearing a fake suicide vest on the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
The man was carrying a piece of paper marked with the Islamic State flag and an “unequivocal” claim of responsibility written in Arabic, the Paris prosecutor said. He was also carrying a mobile phone.
Investigators matched the man’s fingerprints with those of a homeless man convicted of theft in 2013, a source close to the investigation told the news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). He identified himself at the time as Sallah Ali, born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1995. Police did not immediately confirm his identity.
The incident was being investigated as a terrorist “attempted murder” of public officials in authority, the prosecutor said.
The man was shot after approaching the police station in the Goutte d’Or area in the northern 18th arrondissement, between the Gare du Nord train station and the Sacre Coeur Cathedral, at 11.30am, one year almost to the minute after the attack on the satirical magazine, in which 12 people were killed.
The prosecutor said the man brandished a butcher’s knife and shouted: “Allah Akbar,” before police shot him.
Bomb disposal teams and anti-terrorism investigators were on the scene. The man was found to have been wearing a pouch under his coat with a wire hanging from it, but the device “contained no explosives”, a source told AFP.
The interior ministry told AFP that the man had attempted to attack an officer at the station reception.
Local residents said they heard four shots fired by police, who shut down the area and told people to close windows and stay away from balconies.
The man, who had acted without covering his appearance, was not carrying identifying papers.
Knife-wielding man in fake suicide vest killed at Paris police station | World news | The Guardian
The man was carrying a piece of paper marked with the Islamic State flag and an “unequivocal” claim of responsibility written in Arabic, the Paris prosecutor said. He was also carrying a mobile phone.
Investigators matched the man’s fingerprints with those of a homeless man convicted of theft in 2013, a source close to the investigation told the news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). He identified himself at the time as Sallah Ali, born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1995. Police did not immediately confirm his identity.
The incident was being investigated as a terrorist “attempted murder” of public officials in authority, the prosecutor said.
The man was shot after approaching the police station in the Goutte d’Or area in the northern 18th arrondissement, between the Gare du Nord train station and the Sacre Coeur Cathedral, at 11.30am, one year almost to the minute after the attack on the satirical magazine, in which 12 people were killed.
The prosecutor said the man brandished a butcher’s knife and shouted: “Allah Akbar,” before police shot him.
Bomb disposal teams and anti-terrorism investigators were on the scene. The man was found to have been wearing a pouch under his coat with a wire hanging from it, but the device “contained no explosives”, a source told AFP.
The interior ministry told AFP that the man had attempted to attack an officer at the station reception.
Local residents said they heard four shots fired by police, who shut down the area and told people to close windows and stay away from balconies.
The man, who had acted without covering his appearance, was not carrying identifying papers.
Knife-wielding man in fake suicide vest killed at Paris police station | World news | The Guardian
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