Man shot dead on Charlie Hebdo anniversary
French police have shot dead a man who was apparently trying to attack a police station on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
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The suspect was carrying a meat cleaver and wearing a dummy suicide vest.
Officials have named him as a convicted thief, Sallah Ali, who was born in Morocco.
Minutes before he was shot, President Francois Hollande had praised police in a speech on last year's killings.
Gunmen murdered 17 people in attacks, last year including at Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket.
In his address, Mr Hollande said 5,000 extra police and gendarmes would be added to existing forces by 2017 in an "unprecedented" strengthening of French security.
The Paris prosecutor's office says it is opening a terrorism investigation into the incident last Thursday, which took place in the 18th district in northern Paris.
French officials say the suspect, who was wielding the butcher's knife, shouted "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Great) outside a police station in Goutte d'Or, near Montmartre, before police shot and killed him.
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A piece of paper with an Islamic State (IS) flag and claim for the attack written in Arabic was found on his body.