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Knifeman With ISIL Flag Shot Dead At Paris Police Station

A man has been shot dead at a Paris police station wearing a fake explosive vest and carrying a sheet of paper featuring the ISIL flag. The man was killed as he tried to enter a police station in Paris, wielding a knife. The incident comes on the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine Euro News reports: Reportedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar!’, meaning ‘God is great’, he was gunned down by officers in the northern 18th district, not far from Montmartre. Some reports said his weapon was a meat cleaver. The Paris Prosecutor François Molins has said the man was carrying a mobile phone and a sheet of paper featuring the ISIL flag and a claim of responsibility, written in Arabic. The events would be investigated as a terrorism incident, he added. Man killed in Paris had ‘piece of paper with ISIS flag and claim of responsibility’. https://t.co/pZKmYkhSo1 pic.twitter.com/sgkQ027EPv — Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) January 7, 2016 According to a police union official, the man ran towards two officers guarding the building. He was brandishing a kitchen knife and “shouting something which could have been Allahu Akbar”, Yann Assioma of Alliance CGC told France Info radio. The officers thought [...]