A knifeman has been shot by Paris transport police after shouting, 'Allahu Akbar, France is ruled by Islamic State' at a train...
A knifeman has been shot by Paris transport police after shouting, 'Allahu Akbar, France is ruled by Islamic State' at a train station.
The man is said to be severely injured after he wielding the weapon while threatening security at Saint-Lazare station, one of the busiest stations in the French capital.
The incident started after he was stopped for not wearing a mask and he refused to comply with officials on Monday evening.
A knifeman has been shot by Paris transport police after shouting, 'Allahu Akbar' at Saint-Lazare station in Paris (pictured)
He then took out his knife and charged towards them shouting 'rushing towards the four agents, shouting 'Allahu Akbar. France is ruled by the Islamic State' before he was shot twice in the chest.
The knifeman fell on to the tracks, according to Le Parisien, and was rushed to hospital where he remains in a life-threatening condition.
France's state-owned railway company SNCF said in a statement: 'The two agents used their service weapon to defend and neutralise him.
'The injured individual was taken care of by the emergency services.'
According to identity documents found on his body, the man was born in 1974 and had been known to police for previous threats and violence but was not known to intelligence services.
The incident started after he was stopped for not wearing a mask and he refused to comply with officials on Monday evening
An investigation has already been opened for attempted homicide of someone in a public office, terrorism and violence with weapons.
The incident comes a year after a Tunisian attacker with a knife killed three people and wounded several others at a church in Nice.
That terror attack took place less than two weeks after the beheading of middle school teacher Samuel Paty by a man of Chechen origin. Paty's attacker said he wanted to punish him for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics lesson.
It followed a wave of attacks that have rocked France in recent years.
In January 2015, two Islamist militants broke into an editorial meeting of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people. Another militant killed a policewoman the next day and took hostages at a supermarket killing four before police shot him dead.
In November of that year, an ISIS cell slaughtered 130 in attacks on bars and the Bataclan music hall.
Then in 2016 a man drove a heavy truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing 86 people and injuring scores more in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
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