Knifeman killed by Paris Police on Anniversary of Charles Hebdo Attacks.

(CNN)Paris, a city on edge after weathering a year of jihadist violence, faced a fresh scare Thursday as police shot and killed a cleaver-wielding man on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

French authorities said the man with the weapon was shot as he attempted to enter a police station in the northern Paris neighborhood of Barbes.

The man was shouting "Allahu Akbar," Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told CNN affiliate BFMTV.

He wore a pouch of what appeared to be explosives, but it turned out to be fake, Paris prosecutor's spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre told CNN.

The attempted attack near the police station in Goutte D'Or, in the 18th arrondissement, took place on the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo killings, the first of deadly jihadist attacks that have roiled the French capital over the past 12 months.