French police have shot dead a man wielding a knife who threatened them at Paris’s Gare du Nord train station, the BBC reported on Monday.
The man attacked two police officers on patrol at the station, with a 30cm (12in) knife on Monday, the police said adding that no policemen were injured in the incident.
An anti-police inscription was found on the man’s knife and authorities believe the incident was not terrorism-related, reports say
“The police used their firearms, thus eliminating all danger, both for themselves and for travellers,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote in a tweet (in French).
A France Television journalist who was at the train station at the time posted a video of the incident on social media, in which two gunshots can be heard.
Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari later told the media that the man was known to the police “as someone who wandered around in the station”.
“He appears to have attacked the police with a knife, forcing them to use their weapon,” he added.
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