A machete-wielding knifeman who tried to enter the Louvre has been shot by a soldier. A French soldier opened fire on a man armed with two knives who was trying to enter the Louvre museum in central Paris, a police source said. The Louvre attacker wielded a machete and shouted ‘Allahu akhbar’, according to French police.
Another police source said the man had been trying to get into the museum’s underground shop with a suitcase. The soldier fired five shots and seriously injured the attacker, including in the stomach.
He was carrying two backpacks, but neither had explosives say police. Soldiers patrolling as part of France’s on-going State of Emergency stopped the man getting into the building shortly after 9am.
‘He was carrying a suitcase and was refused access,’ said a police source at the scene.
‘The man immediately withdrew a knife, and attacked.
‘It was at this moment that a soldier used his weapon to disable the men, who was wounded. The area has been evacuated.’
Tourists inside the Louvre have been evacuated into locked halls and advised to sit down while officers investigate if there is a continued threat.
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