French police have shot dead a man who attacked law enforcement officers in the city of La Courneuve in a northern suburb of Paris, Reuters reported, adding that the attacker was armed with a knife.
The Bobigny commune prosecutor's office has opened an investigation entrusted to the general inspection of the National Police and to the judicial police of the department.
On 4 April, a man stabbed people in the centre of the town of Romans-sur-Isere, in the Drome department, killing two and injuring several others. The attacker was detained and identified as a Sudanese national born in 1987. Two other Sudanese citizens, his neighbours, were also detained. The anti-terrorist prosecutor's office joined the investigation into the attack after papers were seized at the perpetrator’s home in which the author complained that "he lives in a country of non-believers".