A knife-wielding man who tried to enter a police station while wearing a fake explosive belt was shot to death in Paris on Thursday afternoon. According to police, the attacker appears to have been between 30 and 40 years old and of North African origins. He did not have any papers or identification on him and was not known to officers at the station he attacked. The attack came while ceremonies were being held in another part of the city commemorating the one year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, in which two gunmen killed 12 people at the offices of a satirical...
- 1/7/2016
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
A knife-wielding man who tried to enter a police station and may have been wearing a fake explosive device was shot to death Thursday. French newspaper Le Parisien is reporting that Interior Ministry officials are saying the man was wearing "a device which could be an explosive vest," but a police source told CNN that the vest turned out to be fake. The attack came while ceremonies were being held in another part of the city commemorating the one year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, in which two gunmen killed 12 people at the offices of a Satirical magazine that...
- 1/7/2016
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
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