Security video shows moment of Notre Dame attack

Record ID: 1375172

  • Title: Security video shows moment of Notre Dame attack
  • Date: 7th June 2017
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JUNE 7, 2017) (REUTERS FOR AGENCY POOL) ELYSEE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE FRENCH FLAG JUSTICE MINISTER, FRANCOIS BAYROU, DISEMBARKING FROM CAR AND ENTERING PALACE EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN MINISTER, JEAN-YVES LE DRIAN, DISEMBARKING FROM CAR AND ENTERING PALACE INTERIOR MINISTER, GERARD COLLOMB, (RIGHT) WALKING IN COURTYARD AND ENTERING PALACE ARMED FORCES MINISTER, SYLVIE GOULARD, DISEMBARKING FROM CAR AND ENTERING PALACE FRENCH FLAG ON TOP OF ENTRANCE
  • Embargoed: 21st June 2017 10:42
  • Keywords: Notre Dame police attack counter-terrorism ministers
  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • City: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,International/National Security
  • Reuters ID: LVA0026KA49QF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:PART VIDEO QUALITY AS INCOMING
    France created a new counter-terrorism task force on Wednesday (June 7) comprised of all intelligence services that will coordinate responses to attacks, a day after a man carrying Algerian papers attacked police officers outside the Notre Dame cathedral.
    A surveillance video obtained by Reuters showed the assailant running up to three police officers in the square outside Notre Dame and attempting to land a blow with the hammer. One officer was hurt before the aggressor was shot in the chest.
    Newly-elected President Emmanuel Macron, portrayed by rivals as weak on security during the presidential campaign, last month instructed the task force be created to bring together France's multiple security agencies inside the Elysee presidential palace.
    The performance of France's intelligence services have come under close scrutiny since the November 2015 attacks on Paris, when militant gunmen and suicide bombers struck entertainment venues across the capital, killing 130 people.
    In total, more than 230 people have been killed in a wave of attacks in France either claimed by or inspired by Islamic State over the past two-and-a-half years.
    In Tuesday's attack, a 40-year-old Algerian student armed with a hammer and kitchen knives shouted "this is for Syria" as he wounded a policeman, before being shot by police officers.
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