Man shot, killed at Paris police station: What we know now

France has been rocked by a series of terror attacks that began in January 2015, when Saïd and Chérif Kouachi forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris and shot 11 people dead, wounding 11 others, before fleeing and killing a policeman outside.

In Thursday’s incident, the man allegedly tried to force his way into a police station in the 18th district in northern Paris, an area that Islamic State said it had been planning to hit as part of the November attacks.

An attacker armed with a knife has been shot dead by police at a police station in the French capital.

(AP Photo/Francois Mori). A special edition of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that marks one year after, “1 an apres” the attacks on it, on a newsstand Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016 at a train station in Paris.

The incident happened as President François Hollande was finishing a speech to police and security services about the fight against terrorism in Paris.

Four people were also killed in a Jewish supermarket where shoppers were held hostage by a linked gunman who was also shot dead by police.

Police officers on Thursday morning at the scene of the attack.

Three police officers were among the 17 dead in the attacks last January, which ended after two days of bloodshed in the Paris region.

He was also wearing what turned out to be a fake explosive vest.

The man was carrying a meat cleaver and appeared to be wearing a suicide vest, the interior ministry said, although police sources later reported that the vest was fake.

After that attack, Pope Francis took issue with Charlie Hebdo’s anti-religious stance.

Officials said the man shot to death Thursday threatened officers at the entrance of a police station near the Montmartre neighborhood, home to the Sacre Coeur Cathedral.

In the aftermath of the shooting, a heavy security presence was in force at the scene near the police station in Goutte D’Or in the 18th arrondissement.

Mr Hollande especially called for better surveillance of “radicalised” citizens who have joined Islamic State or other militant groups in Syria and Iraq when they return to France.

Mr Hollande said officers die in the line of duty “so that we can live free”. Among the plans are what could be controversial measures to give police more flexible rules of engagement and stronger stop-and-search powers.

“This past year we’ve had to invest almost 2 million euros to secure our office, which is an enormous sum”, he said.

France has been on high alert ever since the terror attacks that week, and was struck again November 13th by extremists dispatched by the Islamic State group.

Caroline Fourest, former journalist at Charlie Hebdo, responded like many Parisians with tired resignation to Thursday’s attempt – a reflection that such incidents had become “the new normal” in France over the past year.