A knife-wielding man who was shot dead trying to enter a northern Paris police station on Thursday was wearing a fake explosive belt, a police union source said, according to Sputnik News Agency.

The shooting took place a day after the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in the newspaper's Parisian office, and just a few minutes after French President Francois Hollande had finished paying homage to police officers killed in the line of duty, including three shot to death in the attacks last January.

Source: MENA