A police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in Paris just a week before the city hosts the Olympic Games.
The attacker was “immediately neutralised” following the incident near the Champs-Elysees on Thursday evening, officials said.
Gerald Darmanin, the French interior minister, said the officer was hurt while responding to a call for help from security staff at a shop.
Writing on social media, he also expressed his “unwavering support” to the victim.
The condition of the officer was not immediately known.
A police source said the attacker was injured but still alive, and that officers had prevented him from “taking further action”.
It comes just days after a man stabbed and wounded a French soldier on patrol outside the Gare de l’Est train station in eastern Paris on Monday.
The attacker was taken to a psychiatric hospital, according to French prosecutors.
The city has been under a high-security alert ahead of the start of the Olympics on July 26.
Mr Darmanin is staying on in a caretaker role at the interior ministry until a new government is formed in the wake of France’s recent elections.
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