[Telegraph] French police on Saturday shot dead a man who attacked them with a knife in a police station while shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic), a source said.
The man injured the face of an officer at the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the city of Tours in central France and injured two other before he was shot, the interior ministry said.
Anti-terrorist investigators were probing the incident, a judicial source said.
The perpetrator was a French citizen born in Burundi in 1994 and known to police for common crimes, a source close to the case told AFP,
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adding that the attacker "shouted 'Allahu Akbar' from the moment he entered until his last breath."
According to a statement by the interior ministry, the assailant was around 20 years of age, and was "killed (by) police officers present using their issued firearms." |