(VOVworld) - President Francois Hollande has called on French security agencies to increase coordination to prevent terrorist attacks.

French President F.Hollande attends a ceremony during a visit to the French anti-terror security forces (Sentinelle) at Paris police headquarters, one year after the killings at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in Paris on Jan. 7. (Photo: Martin Bureau/Pool)

Hollande addressed police and military personnel at the police headquarters in Paris on Thursday on the first anniversary of the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed by Islamist terrorists

Hollande implied to the failure of France’s Intelligence Service for recent bloody attacks.

Also on Thursday, French police shot dead a man who was apparently trying to attack a police station in northern Paris. The suspect was carrying a meat cleaver and wearing a dummy suicide vest. Investigation is under way in the direction of a terror attack.

The same day, a Paris court sentenced an alleged French IS recruiter in absentia to 15 years in prison. Salim Benghalem, 35, has been identified to be involved in the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine.