Man shot after attacking cop in Paris

The attack comes with France on high alert for more jihadist strikes after a weekend attack in London, where extremists used a van and knives to crush to death and kill seven people, one of them French. 

Authorities in Paris asked the public to stay away from Notre-Dame, one of France’s biggest tourist attractions situated on the banks of the Seine river in the heart of the capital. France is under a state of emergency and on its highest possible level of alert following a string of terror attacks that began in 2015, which have killed over 230 people. 

In the last fatal attack, a policeman was shot and killed on Paris’s prestigious Champs-Elysees avenue on April 20, three days before the first round of the presidential election.