According to the French media, a man attacked police officers with a knife at the Metropolitan Police Department in the center of Paris on the 3rd, and four staff members died. The man was killed by security authorities in the courtyard of the government building.
According to the Buddha newspaper Figaro, five people were attacked, and the man who attacked was 45 years old and was a member of the Metropolitan Police Department. It is possible that there was a private grudge in the background.
The site is located on the island of Cite between the Seine River, and nearby Notre Dame Cathedral and the Supreme Court. (Paris = Tadaaki Hamada)