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Gets shot because of a FAKE bomb belt. Gosh, what an epic LOSER.
Man With Knife and Fake Explosives Shot Dead Outside Paris Police Station.
PARIS — French police officers fatally shot a man who was wielding a cleaver and yelling “Allahu akbar” as he tried to attack a police station in northern Paris on Thursday, setting off alarms as France marked the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
The man arrived in front of the police station on the Rue de la Goutte d’Or at 11:30 a.m. with a meat cleaver, wearing what turned out to be a fake explosives belt. He then brandished the knife and yelled “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” before police officers opened fire. Witnesses said the officers had ordered the man several times to stop and step back before shooting him.
The office of the Paris prosecutor, François Molins, on Thursday evening confirmed that the assailant’s fingerprints matched those of a man who was convicted of theft in southern France in 2013.
The man told the police at the time that he was named Sallah Ali, that he was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1995, and that he was homeless, the prosecutor’s office said...
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/world/europe/paris-attacker-knife-police-station.html?_r=0
Man With Knife and Fake Explosives Shot Dead Outside Paris Police Station.
PARIS — French police officers fatally shot a man who was wielding a cleaver and yelling “Allahu akbar” as he tried to attack a police station in northern Paris on Thursday, setting off alarms as France marked the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
The man arrived in front of the police station on the Rue de la Goutte d’Or at 11:30 a.m. with a meat cleaver, wearing what turned out to be a fake explosives belt. He then brandished the knife and yelled “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” before police officers opened fire. Witnesses said the officers had ordered the man several times to stop and step back before shooting him.
The office of the Paris prosecutor, François Molins, on Thursday evening confirmed that the assailant’s fingerprints matched those of a man who was convicted of theft in southern France in 2013.
The man told the police at the time that he was named Sallah Ali, that he was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1995, and that he was homeless, the prosecutor’s office said...
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/world/europe/paris-attacker-knife-police-station.html?_r=0