The police shot after one of them was attacked by an unknown man with a hammer in his hands. As reported by the French television channel BFMTV, law enforcement officers conducted an operation in the area of ??the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Suddenly one of them was attacked by a man. The police were forced to open fire and, as a result, they shot the attacker. Currently, his body is still lying on the ground, his condition is currently unknown.

According to the Paris journalists at the time of the operation, visitors were blocked from the exit from the cathedral. At the same time, the Paris police in its Twitter urged residents and visitors to stay away from the neighborhoods with the cathedral areas.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in Austrian Melbourne 29-year-old terrorist Yakub Khair took hostage a woman. He barricaded himself in her apartment, and when the police tried to release her, the terrorist opened fire. As a result of such actions, three policemen were injured.