A man armed with a knife was shot by gendarmes at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after he threatened law enforcement.

On Friday, a man armed with a knife threatened the gendarmes on duty under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, near the Champs Elysees, during the ceremony to rekindle the flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier. Following the incident, a gendarme was slightly injured by the attacker, who was subsequently shot by another gendarme and taken to the hospital. The French anti-terrorist prosecutor's office has opened an investigation, and the suspect, who lives in Seine-Saint-Denis, was already on the MICAS radar, an administrative control and surveillance system.