Updated 10.13am
French police shot dead a man who lunged at them early on Monday with a long-blade knife at Paris's busy Gare du Nord train station, police sources said.
The man attacked two police officers on patrol at the station, the terminus for trains from London, with a 30-centimetre (12-inch) knife with ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) written on the blade, said a police source, who asked not be named.
"The police used their firearms, thus eliminating all danger, both for themselves and for travellers," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote in a tweet.
Total soutien aux policiers qui sont intervenus ce matin pour neutraliser l’individu armé d’un couteau. Le réel est devenu violent.#garedunord pic.twitter.com/sbYlh3EohX
— Wandrille de Guerpel (@wdeguerpel) February 14, 2022
The attack occurred around 7:00 am he said.
A France Television journalist who was at the train station at the time posted a video of the incident on social media, in which two gunshots can be heard.
"It was an individual known to the police as someone who wandered around in the station," Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari told RMC TV.
"He appears to have attacked the police with a knife, forcing them to use their weapon."