The attack occurred in a neighborhood popular with tourists and known for iconic sites including the Champs Elysées.
A police officer was attacked and injured in central Paris on Thursday evening, as France ramps up security measures in the capital ahead of the 2024 Olympics. “A police officer was attacked in the eighth arrondissement of Paris while he was responding to a call from officers securing a store,” French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in a post on X.
The eighth arrondissement is popular with tourists and known for iconic sites including the Champs Elysées. This is the second violent incident against French security agents this week, after a soldier was stabbed on Monday in a Paris train station. The soldier, who was injured, had been part of Operation Sentinel, an anti-terrorism military operation that was established in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in January 2015.
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