The French police have shot dead a man who was suspected of beheading a 13-year-old man in southern France. Local police found a body that was beheaded in an apartment in Tarascon.

France: Police shoots dead man with psychiatric disorder suspected of beheading minor

A terror probe has been launched after a man attacked and killed a female police officer on Friday with a knife at a police station in a Paris suburb. Her attacker was shot and killed by officers on the scene.

France: Officer stabbed in police station

France's lower house of parliament is opening debate Tuesday on a security bill that would permit the imprisonment of people who publish images of police officers with the intent to cause them harm.

France mulls ban on police images, alarming rights defenders

People in the vicinity scrambled for cover during the incident which comes close on the heels of the extremist attack in London

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