Breaking news out of Paris on the one-year anniversary of the terror attack against Charlie Hebdo magazine, a unidentified man reportedly wielding a knife and wearing a fake suicide vest was shot and killed by police as he tried to enter a police station in the Paris suburb of Barbes:
#BREAKING – #Paris Police Station shooting: armed soldiers deployed, man suspected to carry suicide vest https://t.co/r2jLdg8L68 #Barbes
— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) January 7, 2016
Commissioner: the man who was shot in #barbes wore a dummy explosive belt https://t.co/M0FZTWz02C
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) January 7, 2016
#FRANCE
Man With Knife Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Shot Dead While Tried To Enter Paris Police Station. (Pic:@akilincs) pic.twitter.com/iEuDSwYrbB— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) January 7, 2016
Paris police: Man killed outside station was wearing fake explosive vest and shouting “Allahu akbar” https://t.co/LcVNJxgoYw
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) January 7, 2016
A robot was called in to examine the body:
#Barbes #Gouttedor #France #fusillade un robot de deminage est sur place. pic.twitter.com/Dh0TMWSoOP
— Anna Polonyi (@akilincs) January 7, 2016
Authorities in France think this might be a terrorist attack:
JUST IN: Paris police official says officers are investigating attack on a police station as potential "terrorism" https://t.co/Hs64lB7yLV
— NBCWashington (@nbcwashington) January 7, 2016
Man shot and killed by police in #Paris in apparent act of #terrorism. https://t.co/dmWHy2CnPv pic.twitter.com/5TOdDY5ZaD
— 770 CHQR Global News Radio (@770CHQR) January 7, 2016
'Too early to say" if Paris attack was an act of terrorism. https://t.co/pZKmYkhSo1 pic.twitter.com/fHsLFi3n8z
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) January 7, 2016
And police are on high alert for other attacks:
#Paris authorities: fear here is that guy with knife and apparently fake vest outside police station was bait…for second attack elsewhere
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) January 7, 2016
Me too. Schools closed nearby. Car taken away. Authorities taking no chances they say #Paris https://t.co/pnvJC39VJk
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) January 7, 2016
Via @ChrisCuomo there are still 2 at large, orchestrators of Paris attack, officials close to identifying.
— John Leksander (@JohnLeksander) January 7, 2016
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