French police shoot dead a knife attacker in north of Paris - source
French police on Wednesday shot dead a man armed with a knife who had threatened them in the Paris suburbs, prosecutors and police said. Police patrolling on bicycles noticed the man armed with a long knife in La Courneuve in the northeastern Paris suburbs, police said in a statement.
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- Published Date: 08:43 | 15 April 2020
- Modified Date: 08:43 | 15 April 2020
French police shot and killed on Wednesday a man who attacked police officers with a knife in the city of La Courneuve in a northern suburb of Paris, a police source said.
The attack took place around 1430pm GMT when police officers were on bike patrol, the source said.
The man threatened the police and then thew himself towards them, it said. The police then shot at him multiple times, it added.
Prosecutors said that the man was "apparently born in Afghanistan".
"No theory is ruled out but it appears no comments of terrorist nature were made," said another police source.
A Sudanese man had on April 4 gone on a stabbing rampage in the country's southeast, killing two people. He has since been charged with terror-related offences.
France has been on terror alert since a wave of deadly bombings and shootings in Paris in 2015.
Over 250 people have been killed in France since then in what have been deemed terror attacks.
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