French police have shot dead a man who was apparently trying to attack a police station on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.<\/p>\n
The suspect was carrying a meat cleaver and wearing a dummy suicide vest.<\/p>\n
Minutes earlier, President Francois Hollande had praised police in a speech commemorating the January 2015 Paris killings.<\/p>\n
Gunmen murdered 17 people in a series of attacks, including at Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket.<\/p>\n
In his address, Mr Hollande said 5,000 extra police and gendarmes would be added to existing forces by 2017 in an “unprecedented” strengthening of French security.<\/p>\n
\n The Paris prosecutor’s office says it is opening a terrorism investigation into the incident on Thursday, which took place in the 18th district in northern Paris.<\/p>\n French officials say the suspect, who was wielding the butcher’s knife, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” (God is Great) outside a police station in Goutte d’Or, near Montmartre, before police shot and killed him.<\/p>\n A piece of paper with an Islamic State flag and claim for the attack written in Arabic was found on his body.<\/p>\n Bomb disposal experts were brought in after wires were seen extending from his body, but officials later said a belt he was wearing did not contain any explosives.<\/p>\n Anti-terror police and French intelligence services are treating the incident as a case of attempted murder.<\/p>\n Following the attack, a cordon was been set up around the area, and security was boosted at schools and on public transport networks in the city.<\/p>\n Correspondents say the time of the attempted attack – 11:30 local time – is potentially significant as this is the same time that two gunmen launched their massacre at Charlie Hebdo’s offices exactly one year ago.<\/p>\n Three days of attacks brought bloodshed to Paris and its surrounding areas last January.<\/p>\n The three attackers were shot dead by police, but questions remain about their jihadist contacts and possible accomplices in the Middle East.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" French police have shot dead a man who was apparently trying to attack a police station on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The suspect was carrying a meat cleaver and wearing a dummy suicide vest. Minutes earlier, President Francois Hollande had praised police in a speech commemorating the January 2015 Paris killings. Gunmen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}