Man with butcher's knife killed after bid to attack Paris police station

Attempted attack came a year after ‘Charlie Hebdo’ massacre

A man carrying a butcher’s knife and wearing a fake explosive vest tried to attack a Paris police station, a year almost to the minute after two Islamic extremists burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo and unleashed a bloody attack 12 months ago.

The attacker, Sallah Ali, who was born in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in 1995, was killed by police. He was homeless and was known to police in southern France.