April 21, 2017 06:16 pm | Updated November 29, 2021 01:13 pm IST - PARIS:
Police officers stand at attention on April 21, 2017 at the place where a police officer was killed a day earlier on the Champs Elysees boulevard in Paris. A pro-IS note was found next to the assailant’s body.
Investigators found a written note defending the Islamic State next to the body of the gunman who shot dead a policeman in Paris on Thursday, a judicial source said.
The hardline militant group claimed the attack, which also wounded two police officers.
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