French police shot dead a man who lunged at officers with a long-bladed knife marked with an anti-police slogan at Paris’s Gare du Nord train station, the interior minister said. The man attacked two police officers on patrol at the station, one of Europe’s busiest, with a 30-centimetre knife with the English slogan written on the blade, according to prosecutors. “The police were threatened by an assailant who had a knife and who clearly wanted to hurt them and kill them,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters on a visit to the southern city of Montpellier. “They used their service weapons to neutralise him and he died,” Darmanin added. The attack occurred around 7 am, he wrote earlier on Twitter. – AFP
