At least two people have been wounded in a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Paris police said one person had been arrested near the Bastille opera house.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed the incident on Friday.
Police cordoned off the area including the former Charlie Hebdo offices, after a suspect package was noticed nearby.
“I was in my office. I heard screams in the road. I looked out of the window and saw a woman who was lying on the floor and had taken a whack in the face from what was possibly a machete,” a witness told Europe 1 radio. “I saw a second neighbour on the floor and I went to help.”
A Paris police official said that while authorities initially thought two attackers were involved, they now believe it was only one person.
Police also initially announced that four people were wounded in the attack, but later confirmed there were two victims. One is believed to be badly injured.
The attack comes three weeks after 14 people with suspected links to homegrown fighters who attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices in January 2015, killing 12 people, went on trial in Paris.
The court heard that they had sought to avenge the Prophet Mohammed, nearly a decade after the weekly published cartoons mocking him.
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