January 7, 2016
By the Associated Press
Paris — Officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man (click here) wearing a fake
explosive vest 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."
The
man was wearing what looked like an explosive vest, but it was fake,
according to two French police officials who spoke on condition of
anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. They said the man has
not yet been identified.
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 attacks last January....
