A knife-wielding Muslim screaming “Allahu Akbar!” was shot dead by police today in Paris on the one year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
BREAKING: Man shot after gunfire outside Paris police station, CNN affiliate BFMTV reports https://t.co/Ma4vSyjeA8 pic.twitter.com/aC4nf8HUWs
— CNN International (@cnni) January 7, 2016
The AP reported:
Officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man with wires protruding from his clothes at a police station in northern Paris on Thursday, French officials said, a year to the day after an attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo launched a bloody year in the French capital.
Luc Poignant, a police union official, said the man cried out “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.”
Just a few minutes earlier, elsewhere in the city, French President Francois Hollande had finished paying homage to police officers killed in the line of duty, including three shot to death in the attacks last January.
A Paris police official said police were investigating the incident at the Paris police station 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.
Hat Tip Jeff
Donald Trump already weighed in.
Man shot inside Paris police station. Just announced that terror threat is at highest level. Germany is a total mess-big crime. GET SMART!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2016
