Louvre attack had ‘terrorist characteristics', France’s Bernard Cazeneuve says
French police cordoned off the museum after a soldier fired five shots at an assailant armed with a machete who was shouting, ‘Allah Akbar’
Paris — French police cordoned off Paris’s Louvre museum after a soldier fired five shots at an assailant armed with a machete who was shouting, "Allah Akbar". The attacker has been taken into custody. He seems to have acted alone, police said, adding that the incident appears to be over. The attack happened just after 10am France time in the staircase of the museum that connects an underground shopping mall with the museum’s courtyard, the Paris Police prefect Michel Cadot said at a media conference on site. The bags carried by the attacker were found to not contain any explosives, he said. "This is clearly an attack with terrorist characteristics," Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. France is in the middle of a chaotic election campaign in which public security has become one of the key issues. After more than 200 people were killed in terrorist attacks over the past two years, the nationalist Marine Le Pen is leading in the polls for the first round of voting with a pledge to...
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