Police officers in Paris shot and killed a man who was carrying a knife and wearing a fake suicide bomb vest on Thursday when he tried to enter the police station on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
It was before lunchtime when the man tried to enter the station at the Goutte D'Or in Barbes and shouted "Allahu Akbar," which is Arabic for "God is great," Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said, according to Agence France-Presse. Authorities immediately shot the unidentified man twice.
Bomb disposal parties and anti-terrorism officials were present at the scene and concluded that the suicide bomb that the man was supposed to be carrying "contained no explosives," according to the Guardian.
Due to the incident, area residents were advised to remain inside their homes. Students inside the Polyvalent de la Goutte d'Or school were confined inside the school premises, said school director Eric Denis, according to CNN.
The incident occurred after French President Francois Hollande finished his speech to commemorate the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre that killed 12 people while they were in an editorial meeting, as previously reported by HNGN.
"Terrorism still weighs heavily on our country," Hollande said, according to the BBC. "Faced with these adversaries, it is essential that every service - police, gendarmerie, intelligence, military - work in perfect harmony."
In line with the recent attacks in Paris in November 2015, Hollande also stated that by 2017, 5,000 additional members of the police force and 2,000 more jobs will be added in the intelligence service industry.
