Paris: doubts over the identity of man shot outside police station
Euronews

PARIS, FRANCE -- There is doubt over the identity of a man shot dead by police in Paris yesterday.

The authorities are trying to establish whether the man was a significant threat or was acting alone.

He was killed as he tried to enter a police station while wielding a meat cleaver. Eyewitnesses say he shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest).

He was equipped with what turned out to be a fake suicide belt.

The incident took place on the first anniversary of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in the French capital.

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told French radio the man may have given a false identity when arrested last year.

Officials say the dead man was Ali Sallah, a Moroccan born in 1995 in Casablanca.

He was known to police, having been arrested for theft in the south of France in 2012. He also told police his name was Sallah when he was arrested again last year.

However, papers found on the body in Paris carry a different name and indicate someone of Tunisian nationality.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-01-08

Sounds like "suicide by cop".

Errmmmm. Are they suprised over false identities?? They just let 1 million inside EU without them needing to show any papers.

Words have meaning. When we surrender our meaning we surrender our reason. This OP has an error (no surprise with this one though). “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest).

It most certainly does not mean this.

Allahu Akbar means "Al Lah is Greater/Greatest." This is frequently mistranslated as most westerners generally know little... anything... about Arab-supremacy/Islam. This is not a proclamation about the Arab culture/Islamic faith. This is a proclamation about the inferiority of other cultures/faiths.

This has been war cry for 1,400 years. Five times a day, from conquests to shouts of joy, from the home to the battlefield, up to 35,000 feet-- this phrase inculcates supremacy. Whisper it. Think it. Discuss it at home, but public shouts should be met with swift rejection. How this is overlooked in the modern age is stunning. Profound ignorance. Its staggers the mind how a people can have their reason subverted to willful ignorance by politics. People enjoy primary sources: https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Allahu_Akbar

They know his identity now. Turns out he was an asylum seeker and had come from Germany to do his mission. Not too polite to say I told you so, but