Paris police shot and killed a man with a knife as he entered a police station Thursday. The incident came exactly a year after the deadly attacks on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The man came into the station in northern Paris yelling, “Allahu Akbar” and was wearing a suicide belt, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told BFM TV. The belt was later determined to be fake, reports Reuters.
The incident came one year after the Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, where 12 people were killed. The magazine had angered Islamists because of a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad.
BBC News reports that French President Franoics Hollande also gave a speech today, calling for 5,000 new police officers for an "unprecedented" strengthening of security in France.
France has been on high alert since those shootings. However, in November, the country was attacked again, this time by Islamic State militants. The attacks killed 130 people.
“We know that ISIL or al Qaeda is encouraging (such attacks) in Europe, not only in France,” Caroline Fourest, a former Charlie Hebdo journalist, told CNN. “So we're fortunate to see when those attacks are failing."