AFP, France :
French police shot dead a knife-wielding man who attacked three officers in a police station while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”).
The man wounded one officer’s face at the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the central city of Tours and injured two others before he was killed.
Anti-terror investigators of the Paris prosecutor’s office have opened an inquiry into the incident for attempted murder and other offences related to terrorism.
The perpetrator was a French national born in Burundi in 1994 who was known to police for common crimes, a source close to the investigation told AFP.
The attacker “shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ from the moment he entered until his last breath,” the source said.
“It looked like the sort of act called for by Islamic State,” the source said.
French police shot dead a knife-wielding man who attacked three officers in a police station while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”).
The man wounded one officer’s face at the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the central city of Tours and injured two others before he was killed.
Anti-terror investigators of the Paris prosecutor’s office have opened an inquiry into the incident for attempted murder and other offences related to terrorism.
The perpetrator was a French national born in Burundi in 1994 who was known to police for common crimes, a source close to the investigation told AFP.
The attacker “shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ from the moment he entered until his last breath,” the source said.
“It looked like the sort of act called for by Islamic State,” the source said.
