Attacker killed by Paris police carried Islamic State flag

Luke Skywalker · Jan 7, 2016

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[h=4]Attacker killed by Paris police carried Islamic State flag[/h]A man with a knife was shot dead at a police station in Paris, on the one year anniversary of the terror attack at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

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One year ago gunmen entererd the Charlie Hedbo offices and opened fire, starting three days of terror in Paris. Government officials, families of the victims and the world is remembering the event this week. USA TODAY

Police officers stand guard near a shooting scene after a man carrying a knife attempted to enter a Paris police station in the Goutte d'Or area, northern Paris on Jan. 7, 2016.(Photo: Ian Langsdon, EPA)

A knife-wielding man,*wearing fake explosives and carrying an*Islamic State*flag,*was*shot dead by officers Thursday as he tried to enter a police station in northern Paris, according to French officials.*The incident happened*on the*one-year anniversary of the terror attack on the*satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Pierre-Henry Brandet, Interior Ministry spokesman, said the man at the police station is believed to have cried out*"Allahu Akbar" or "God is great"*in Arabic, as he tried to enter the*station*in the*18th arrondissement.
Although officials have not yet identified the*assailant, French newspaper*Le Soir*reported*his*identity as*Salah Ali,*born in 1995 in Morocco.
A statement from the French prosecutor's*office said the*man,*armed with*a butcher's knife,*carried*an Islamic State flag printed*on a piece of paper along with*a statement, in Arabic, claiming responsibility for the attack.*He was also carrying a cellphone.

Parisians turn out for a makeshift memorial for the victims of Paris attacks at the Place de la Republique in Paris on Jan. 7, 2016.*(Photo: Eric Feferberg, AFP/Getty Images)

Alexis Mukenge, who saw the shooting from inside another building, told the network iTele that police told the man, “Stop. Move back.” Mukenge said officers fired twice, and the man immediately dropped to the ground.
The attack occurred only minutes after*French President Francois Hollande, speaking at police quarters in another district, paid homage to police officers killed in the line of duty, including three shot to death last January during the Charlie Hebdo attack. Hollande also lay a wreath at official ceremonies marking the one-year anniversary of the killings.
A police official, speaking to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of police policy, said authorities are viewing the incident as "more likely terrorism" than a criminal act.
Two other French officials,*who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation, said the belt*the man was wearing had*wires protruding from his body and was a fake, the AP reported. One of the officials said the man threatened officers at the police station with a butcher’s knife.
Until police determined the explosives were fake, the man's body lay on the sidewalk where it was inspected by a robot and*bomb-sniffing dogs, The New York Times reported.*Photos posted on Twitter after the attack showed*the*purported attacker's body lying on the pavement. He was wearing a camouflage coat.

French police officer patrol at the Boulevard de Barbes in the north of Paris on Jan. 7, 2016, after police shot a man dead as he was trying to enter a police station in the Rue de la Goutte d'Or.*(Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

At least a dozen police vans blocked*off the area in the Goutte d’Or district. Sirens were activated and*schools were placed on*lockdown in the neighborhood.
Paris has been on high alert ahead of the*anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks and in the wake of the deadly terror assault on the French capital*in November that left 130 dead.
USA TODAY
'Charlie Hebdo' victims remembered one year later

On Jan. 7, 2015, Islamist militant brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, beginning three days of terror that left 17 people dead. The victims included a policewoman and hostages at a kosher grocery market who were killed by another militant,*Amedy Coulibaly. All three attackers were killed in standoffs with police.
A week of events to commemorate the attacks is currently taking place. Crowds turned out Thursday at*Place de la Republique to add flowers, candles and notes to a huge makeshift memorial that sprang up after the November terror attacks.
In his remarks,*Hollande said French security*will be beefed up by 2017 with an additional 5,000 police and gendarmes.
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