“Officers neutralised a threatening particular person in possession of a knife on the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport,” the Paris police division stated on its Twitter account.

An airport supply stated the incident occurred on the busy Terminal 2F at round 8:20 am (0620 GMT), when “a homeless man began bothering safety brokers and border police had been known as in to take away him”.

Initially the person left whereas yelling curses however he quickly returned and introduced out a knife, when one of many officers fired his weapon.

An AFP photographer who witnessed the scene stated “a big individual of color brandished one thing that regarded like a knife on the police”.

“He was ordered to cease however stored advancing towards them, and an officer fired a single shot.”

The person was shortly placed on a stretcher and evacuated, the photographer stated.

Safety forces have been on excessive alert for terrorist assaults since a wave of jihadist killings which have killed greater than 250 folks since 2015, usually by so-called “lone wolves” who usually goal police.