Officers Kill Knife-Wielding Attacker Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ In Police Station

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PARIS, France: French police shot a man dead who attacked them with a knife at a police station. Three officers were injured in the attack, one in the face.

Witnesses say the attacker was shouting “Allahu Akbar” (‘God is great’ in Arabic) from the moment he entered the station.

The perpetrator was a 20-year-old French citizen, according to the AFP. He was not on any watch-list by France’s government but his brother had radical convictions and a one point planned to travel to Syria.

The incident happened at a police station in Joue-les-Tours ner Tours in central France.

All of the injured officers are listed as stable and anti-terrorist investigators are probing the incident

(PHOTO via AFP)

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