US EditionMan shot dead after attacking police near Arc de Triomphe in Paris
The attacker, recently released from prison with terrorism convictions, was shot during the ceremony and later died, prompting a counterterrorism investigation by French authorities.
- On Friday, a man wielding a knife tried to attack police beneath the Arc de Triomphe and was shot and injured by a police officer; no bystanders or officers were wounded, officials said.
- The ceremony to relight the eternal flame occurred beneath the Arc de Triomphe, Paris near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a site atop the busy Champs-Elysees that hosted protests earlier this year.
- Paris police said the attacker was taken to hospital in critical condition after an officer shot him during the incident.
- France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office said it opened an inquiry and dispatched an investigator to the scene.
- The Arc de Triomphe's role as a national ceremonial site means the incident occurred at a symbolic location during a high-profile observance and after the Jan. 8, 2026 farmers protest at the Arc de Triomphe.
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In Paris, the anti-terrorist prosecutor's office seized, after the stabbing attack that took place on Friday evening under the Arc de Triomphe. The man, shot down by the gendarmes, tried to attack them at the time of the Flame ceremony. He had barely left the prison after a heavy conviction for similar acts in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium. This Islamist was under surveillance. At 47, Brahim Bahrir, a French national, was registered for radic…
On Friday 13 February, a man was shot dead at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe after trying to stab a gendarmerie. Brahim Bahir, a radicalized man who had already been convicted of similar acts in Belgium, was released from prison last December.
Cops Fatally Shoot Man With Knife at Arc de Triomphe
A man wielding a knife and scissors was fatally shot by police in Paris on Friday when he tried to attack an officer during a ceremony at the city's Arc de Triomphe monument, officials said. The suspect, a French national born in 1978 who'd previously been convicted in Belgium on...
On Friday, shortly after 6 p.m., a man attacked a policeman in Paris under the Arc de Triomphe with a knife and a pair of scissors. The soldiers then used fire to neutralize the assailant. The Islamist terrorist came out of prison in Belgium only two months ago – he was serving a prison sentence there for stabbing two Belgian police officers in 2012, including a woman seriously injured at the time. There are moments when a country is staring at …
Paris police shoot dead knife‑wielding man at Arc de Triomphe, suspect known for radicalisation
PARIS, Feb 14 — French police shot and killed a knife-wielding man under the Arc de Triomphe yesterday after he allegedly threatened officers on ceremonial duty at the Paris landmark, officials said.The man was shot several times by police as he threatened officers during the ceremony to rekindle the flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier, a police source told AFP.One of the officers on honour guard duty sustained slight wounds from a knife bl…
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