The cameras captured the moment when the man attacked a policeman with a hammer at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris yesterday.
France launched an anti-terrorist investigation into the attack yesterday
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said yesterday that the attacker shouted "This is for Syria".
Colomb also said that the identity documents of the attacker stated that he was a student from Algeria.
The incident happened when a man attacked a policeman with a hammer in front of the cathedral, after which the policemen responded by shooting and wounding the attacker in the chest, Reuters reported.
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