France, Nov. 17 -- A man has been killed by French police outside Paris after threatening police officers and shouting 'Allahu akbar', the Arabic expression often shouted by Islamist attackers.

According to preliminary information, the man brandished a dummy gun and was "very drunk" ataround 6.00 am Sunday morning in the Paris suburbs.

Police were called to an incident which reported an armed man banging on a nieghbour's door in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges in the southeastern of the French capital.

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