A man that was wearing a fake suicide vest was shot dead outside a Paris police station after wielding a knife in the city on Thursday.
According to witnesses, he was spotted running towards the police station in northern Paris shouting ‘Allahu Akbar.’
Authorities have confirmed that the man was armed with a knife and was wearing a fake suicide vest.
Officials said that the man had wires extended from his clothing, a bomb squad was sent to the site.
A witness said he had heard ‘two or three shots’ shortly before the man was on the ground.
Photographs shared on social media shows the man’s body being inspected by a robot and French police said the neighborhood in northern Paris has been locked down after the shooting.
The incident outside the police station in Barbes came exactly one year after the terrorist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
