moum mou mou monuments that visited the most by tourists. and defended by increased numbers of military personnel and women we ve had on the streets of paris ever since the state of emergency was introduced in the wake of the november 13th attacks back in 2015. you ll remember then that 130 people had been killed and remarkably coordinated attacks by well-armed gun men, the whole thing launched from syria. this time and more recently we ve been seeing are much cruder attacks on military and security personnel more generally. this appears to have been the case once again today. crucially perhaps the man who carried out today s attack was shot by policemen after attacking them with the hammer but not killed so no doubt we will get much more information with any luck about what his motivations were. but the fact that the french authorities have opened this anti-terror investigation does believe it was terror-related. i can think of no other example
these kind of events as they remember, not just the people who were killed in the charlie hebdo attacks, but, of course, now these past november 13th attacks that killed 130 people at the bataclan and the restaurants there in france. it does not, however, seem to stop all of these folks coming out and paying their remains. we will continue to follow this. as soon as we get jim live there, we will bring it to you. on the one-year anniversary of that attack at charlie hebdo there was a man who attempted to go into a police station with a knife. he was shot and killed. german police say that they have now launched a raid on his apartment. it was in the city where he had been living in a housing reserved for asylum seekers. we do not know if the attacker was, in fact, a refuge. it would not be the first time a
okay. now let s take you to paris and the place de la republique. they are remembering the historic day last year when millions marched together in solidarity against the attacks against charlie hebdo. what are you seeing, jim? reporter: the official ceremony took place an hour or so ago. there were several thousand of people here at place de la republique. they unveiled a plaque to the dead. not only from charlie hebdo, the 17 who died in the charlie hebdo attack and subsequent attacks, but also the attacks on november 13th that killed 130 people. so this memorial today was planned as kind of a commemoration of both of those
tragic events. i just would like to bring in here melissa bell who is a foreign affairs editor for foreign 24. you were here a year ago and a lot of things have happened in france since then. how do you think the french are reacting to all of this and how are they taking it on board? i think there is still a great deal of shock. i don t think france was gotten over or begun to digest this year that started with this extraordinary blood bath and ended with one that almost dwarfed where it happened earlier on in the year. i think it will take sometime for the french to come to terms with it. the americans had an experience of a large-scale terrorist attacks many years ago. when it happens to you for the first time on your own soil and particularly the november 13th attacks when so many people are so randomly attacked and those attacks happening at the same time across points in the city was tremendously shocking to the french and it will take the country a long time to come to terms wi
psychologically, the investigations continue and even now, one year from charlie hebdo and two months from the november attacks the people behind the attacks who are possibly believe the french investigators in syria, still haven t been named or found or caught and i think this is a another of the things that the french are starting to come to terms with. reporter: must be very disturbing to know people are out there that are possibly planning something else. and always this fear that anything can happen any time. we were reminded of it just a couple of days ago when a man walked into a police station armed with a kitchen knife and a fake explosive belt it turned out. the sense that anything can happen any time and this is a city under attack for so many years. we have been carrying out interventions as though they were carried out surgically far away. i think it will take a long time