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Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters the man
attacked travellers with what looked like a home-made weapon at
0642 CET (0542 GMT) at the entrance and inside the station.
Police had earlier said the man had used a knife or blade.
Within a minute, off-duty police officers returning home after a
night shift shot the attacker three times, Darmanin said.
Gare du Nord, one of the busiest stations in Europe, is the
arrival point of the Eurostar train from London and a major
gateway to the north of Europe.
Asked about possible terrorist motives, Darmanin said a criminal
investigation had been opened but that so far no investigation
for terrorism had been opened.
He said the attacker, who has been taken to hospital with
life-threatening injuries, had said nothing during the attack
and had no identity papers on him. One of the six injured is a
police officer, Darmanin said.
Police secured the area following the attack. Radio franceinfo,
quoting rail operator SNCF, said trains were operating normally.
In February 2022, police killed a man who attacked them with a
knife at the Gare du Nord station. In October 2017, a man who
stabbed two people at the Marseille train station was shot and
killed by soldiers.
(Reporting by Alain Acco, Bertrand Boucey, Sudip Kar-Gupta and
Dominique Vidalon; writing by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Andrew
Heavens and Alison Williams)
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