Man attempting attack on Paris police station cried 'Allahu Akbar': government
A French police officer redirects traffic at the Boulevard de Barbes in the north of Paris on January 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. - AFP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure
Police shot a man dead Thursday as he was trying to enter a police station in a northern district of Paris that is home to a large immigrant community, on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
A witness told AFP he had heard "two or three shots" in the incident that occurred a year to the day of the jihadist attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
The French government in a statement said the man attempting attack on Paris police station cried 'Allahu Akbar".
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