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The crudest of devices, simply a hammer this time, and going straight for those policemen and women or military personnel who have been guarding paris' monuments. so, i think this could prove -- and of course, we have to be cautious at this stage because we don't know what this man's motivations were and this is an ongoing police operation. a great deal of panic, we're hearing, around notre dame cathedr cathedral. this is one of those parts of paris that tends to have large crowds around it, lots of tourists milling about, visiting paris' iconic cathedral. so, you can imagine the scene, since ...

With me. our layout, what would be the protocol be at this moment? you're talking about one of the most visible landmarks in paris, one of the most visited historic sites in paris, and police basically trying to have it on lockdown at the moment, telling people to avoid the area. what's the protocol right now? >> i mean, the protocols have been laid out pretty well by law enforcement and security forces there around that area. i mean, that is one of the most visible landmarks in paris, so any time there's any type of attack, they do have a standard protocol that they go into. and here we have ...

>> exactly. exactly. >> right. stand by with me, art. melissa bell has been covering this breaking news in paris. melissa, what are you picking up at the moment? what are you hearing from police? what's the latest? >> reporter: look, still very sketchy details about this ongoing police operation, but that is what we're hearing that this man was wielding just a hammer. and this really fits into a pattern of what we've seen in paris really over the course of the last few months. in february, you'll remember a man attacked those military personnel guarding the louvre museum armed with a machete. ...

Threat. keep in mind, most police officers in this country are not armed. the number of armed police officers has gone up. there has been -- they have put more of these fast response units who are heavily armed in the streets of london. but because this is a relatively new phenomenon here in england in the past two years, england has not seen the same wave of terror that the rest of europe has, they are going through this debate right now. they are talking about whether there should be shoot-to-kill policies, how much -- how well armed the police should be. other european countries like france...

Sources" is here. you've been keeping your eye and ear to the ground and what you're picking up as well. >> and describing this scene inside the cathedral, remarkable that we're seeing what's inside the cathedral. however, we're not seeing reports of other injuries, of any fatalities. it does not appear, so far, that there were other injuries to any civilians on the scene. this one police officer who was apparently injured by this hammer attack. i think it's very notable from a quote president trump, who recently described terrorists as losers, that there may have only been a single injury in ...