Paris is burning...
A man armed with a knife attacked officers inside Paris police headquarters, killing two and injuring three others, before he was fatally shot Thursday, a French police union official said. It wasn’t immediately clear how far the assailant got inside the building, which is located across the street from Notre Dame Cathedral.
Police union official Loic Travers said one police officer suffered fatal wounds and another officer shot the attacker “in a situation that appears to be self-defense.” The motives of the midday attack were not known.
Another police union official, Jean-Marc Bailleul, told French broadcaster BFM TV that information was still coming in but he understood the attacker was a police department employee.
French media reported that a staff member carried out the attack with a ceramic knife in part of the prefecture that is not open to the public.
The attack came a day after thousands of Paris Police Officers marched in the city to protest low wages, long hours and increasing suicides in their ranks.
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