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		</div><p>A man wielding a knife and scissors was fatally shot by police in Paris when he tried to attack an officer during a ceremony at the city’s Arc de Triomphe monument, officials said.</p>
<p>The suspect, a French national born in 1978 who had previously been convicted in Belgium on terrorist-related charges, died in hospital from his injuries, the French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said.</p>
<p>Authorities did not release the suspect’s name.</p>
<p>The attacker targeted an officer who was guarding the ceremony for relighting the eternal flame honouring unknown soldiers at the Napoleon-era landmark, according to a Paris police official.</p>
<p>Another officer shot the attacker, the official said.</p>
<p>No bystanders or police officers were injured in the incident, the official told The Associated Press.</p>
<p>Before the suspect had died, the French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation on charges of attempted murder “in connection with a terrorist enterprise”.</p>
<p>The assailant had been sentenced to 17 years in prison by a court in Brussels in 2013 for attempted murders in connection with a terrorist enterprise against three police officers in the Belgian city of Molenbeek the previous year, according to the prosecutor’s office.</p>
<p>First incarcerated in Belgium, he was then transferred to France in 2015 to serve the rest of his sentence.</p>
<p>He was released from prison on December 24 2025 and had since been subject to judicial supervision and surveillance measures, the statement said.</p>
<p>The Arc de Triomphe is one of Paris’s most famous sites, and sits atop the busy Champs-Elysees avenue.</p>
<p>A large police presence was visible on Friday evening near the monument, which was closed to the public.</p>
<p>The traffic circle surrounding the Arc de Triomphe remained open to vehicles.</p>
<p>The nearby metro station was closed for security reasons at the request of police, Paris public transport operator RATP said.</p>
<p>French interior minister Laurent Nunez expressed his “full support to the officer who intervened and acted with composure and determination in the face of the terrorist threat” in a message posted on X.</p>
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