Police officer wounded in Paris knife attack

Police officers go to the scene after a stabbing near the Champs-Elysees (David Goldman/AP)

A police officer was wounded in a knife attack in Paris on Thursday in the Champs-Elysees neighbourhood, and the attacker was immediately “neutralised”, authorities said, just days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics.

French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said the attack happened in the 8th arrondissement of Paris while police were “responding to a call from officers securing a store”.