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Paris attacker was carrying emblem of IS group: Prosecutor

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AFP Paris
Last Updated : Jan 07 2016 | 11:07 PM IST
A man carrying a meat cleaver who was shot dead as he tried to attack a police station in Paris today was carrying the emblem of the Islamic State (IS) group, a prosecutor said.
"He was found to be in possession of a mobile phone and a piece of paper on which the flag of Daesh was printed, as well as an unequivocal claim handwritten in Arabic," the prosecutor said in a statement, using the Arabic name for IS.
The incident occurred on the first anniversary of the jihadist attack on the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

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First Published: Jan 07 2016 | 11:07 PM IST

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