Paris police shoot dead knife-wielding man: police sources

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: Reuters

Police in Paris on Thursday shot dead a knife-wielding man who tried to enter a police station, police union sources said.

The incident took place on the anniversary of last year's deadly Islamist militant attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in the French capital.

One of the sources said the man appeared to be wearing a belt of some sort, but could not say whether it was an explosive one.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-shooting-idUSKBN0UL1A620160107?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

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[Petrushka]

1. Shoot with a knife? Hm-m?

[BeyondGeography]

4. Maybe just bring the explosives vest next time

[Petrushka]

5. Would have made more sense the first time!

[MowCowWhoHow III]

2. Man shot dead near Paris police station had knife and apparent explosives vest: ministry

#BREAKING Man shot dead near Paris police station had knife and apparent explosives vest: ministry
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/685065445666369536

[MowCowWhoHow III]

3. Man attempting attack on Paris police station cried 'Allahu Akbar': government

#BREAKING Man attempting attack on Paris police station cried 'Allahu Akbar': government
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/685065677913350144

[Petrushka]

6. Beginning to remind me of those weekly cliff-hanger movies at the Rialto.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

7. Man shot dead by Paris police was wearing 'fake' suicide vest: sources

#BREAKING Man shot dead by Paris police was wearing 'fake' suicide vest: sources
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/685074411024691200

[MowCowWhoHow III]

8. Man shot dead in Paris carried mobile phone, sheet of paper with Islamic State flag...

BREAKING: Man shot dead in Paris carried mobile phone, sheet of paper with Islamic State flag and claim of responsibility - Paris prosecutor
https://twitter.com/ReutersWorld/status/685111015500083200

[Nihil]

9. "... and claim of responsibility"

"Responsibility" for what?
Suicide by cop?
Terminal stupidity?

[MowCowWhoHow III]

10. I guess in his fantasies he was a lot more successful/competent

If he'd managed to fatally knife one or two cops before collecting his virgins, the claim of responsibility wouldn't have been so ridiculous.

[FrodosPet]

14. Obviously a false flag operation

I bet his name is really Gunter Scholz, and he is a member of the NDP from Düsseldorf.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

11. French police seek identity of fake suicide vest attacker

French police seek identity of fake suicide vest attacker

Paris (AFP) - French anti-terror investigators were on Friday seeking to identify a man shot dead while trying to storm a Paris police station brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a fake suicide vest.

The man was shot dead by officers as he ran towards the entrance of the police station waving the meat cleaver and shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest&quot on Thursday, exactly a year to the day since the massacre of journalists at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.

Based on his fingerprints, police initially identified him as Sallah Ali, born in 1995 in Casablanca, a homeless man who was arrested for theft in 2013.

But Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday that the identity was "not at all certain" since he was carrying no documents at the time of his arrest.

http://news.yahoo.com/french-police-seek-identity-fake-suicide-vest-attacker-104749319.html

[MowCowWhoHow III]

12. Paris police station attacker lived in German refugee shelter: police

Paris police station attacker lived in German refugee shelter: police

Berlin (AFP) - German police said Saturday they raided an asylum seeker shelter where they said the man who sought to attack a Paris police station on Thursday had lived.

Police found no indications that other attacks had been planned, they said in a statement following the search at the shelter in western Germany's Recklinghausen, adding that investigations are ongoing in close cooperation with French authorities.

http://news.yahoo.com/paris-police-station-attacker-lived-german-refugee-shelter-223043866.html;_ylt=AwrBT9rkipFWd60Aj_JXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--

[Yo_Mama]

13. Supposedly while there he posed with an ISIS flag

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/kampf-gegen-den-terror/getoeteter-angreifer-von-paris-lebte-in-deutscher-unterkunft-fuer-asylbewerber-14006232.html

Der Mann, der in Paris mit einem Beil auf Polizisten losging und daraufhin erschossen wurde, lebte in einer Flüchtlingsunterkunft in Recklinghausen. Er soll dort mit einer Fahne des Islamischen Staat posiert haben.

Translation:
The man who attacked police in Paris with an axe, and was therefore shot, lived in a refugee shelter in Recklinghausen. He is reported to have posed there with an Islamic State flag.

This is going to be just ducky for French/German relations.

But wait, it gets better:

Wie die „Welt am Sonntag“ unter Berufung auf deutsche Sicherheitskreise schreibt, war der Mann in der Bundesrepublik unter vier verschiedenen Namen registriert, Asyl habe er unter dem Namen Walid Salihi beantragt. In einer Flüchtlingsunterkunft in Recklinghausen habe er im September 2015 das Zeichen des IS an die Wand gemalt. Die in Deutschland angegebenen Staatsangehörigkeiten waren der Zeitung zufolge mal syrisch, mal marokkanisch, mal georgisch. Der Mann sei dort zudem mehrfach polizeilich in Erscheinung getreten.

Translated:
As The Welt on Sunday reported on the basis of information from German security circles, the man was registered in Germany under four different names. He requested asylum under the name of Walid Salihi. In September 2015 he painted the IS sign on the wall of the Recklinghausen refugee shelter. In Germany his claimed countries of origin, according to the paper, were once Syrian, once Morrocan, and once Georgian. The man came to the attention of the police there multiple times.