Because of the attack on the policeman, the area around the Notre Dame Cathedral. Almost 900 people were blocked in the Notre Dame Cathedral in connection with the shooting earlier Tuesday, the website of the French newspaper Figaro. People in the cathedral were asked to sit down. Police officers checked whether there were any accomplices of the attacker among the visitors. The man who attacked himself shouted that he was avenging events in Syria, French Interior Minister Gerard Collon said on Tuesday.. "He shouted:" This is for Syria ". We do not have any additional data, "the minister told reporters, who arrived at the cathedral.

Collon explained that it is in connection with this reference to Syria that the judicial authorities of the country do not exclude that it could have been an attempt at a terrorist act. In turn, the French media reported with reference to sources close to the investigation that the man also said that he has something to do with IGIL and called himself a "soldier of the caliphate". According to Figaro, the attacker is a 40-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin. Firefight in the center of Paris: a policeman died Original article: Attack in Paris: 900 tourists blocked.