French interior minister Gérald Darmanin qualifies an attempted knife attack at Gare du Nord train station in Paris as "a direct demonstration of a desire to attack police officers directly because they were police officers." From Montpellier, Darmanin also speaks about a deadly fire in the eastern Pyrenees in which seven people thus far have died. Darmanin says the death toll is "not definitive". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES