The assailant reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar”.
One person was killed and another wounded in a stabbing attack in downtown Paris on Saturday evening, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has said.
“The police have just courageously arrested an assailant attacking the passersby in Paris, around the Quai de Grenelle. One person is dead, and one injured person is being treated by the Paris fire brigade. Please avoid the area,” the minister wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
According to Le Parisien, the suspect wielded a knife and a hammer. The attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar,” Le Parisien and AFP reported, citing a police source.
A tourist with dual German-Philippine nationality, was attacked on the Bir-Hakeim bridge and has died from stab wounds to the back and shoulder, the French media reported.
An English tourist was attacked when walking with his wife and child on Avenue du President Kennedy. He was reportedly hospitalized with head injuries. The French media reported that there is a third victim, who was also hospitalized.
According to BFM TV, the suspect was born in France in 1997. He was known to authorities as a person espousing radical Islamist views and suffering from “significant psychiatric disorders,” the channel said.
“After his arrest, he said that he could no longer tolerate seeing Muslims dying in Afghanistan and Palestine,” Darmanin told reporters after arriving at the crime scene. The minister added that the suspect was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 for plotting “a violent action.”
France has seen a wave of anti-Semitic incidents following the outbreak of the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants on October 7.
On October 13, a knife-wielding Islamist attacked a school in the northern French city of Arras, killing a teacher and injuring three people. The assailant was detained.
well, the speaker of parliament, ms braun-pivet ( j*****) recently went to israel to give ” the unconditional support of france” to israhell. She had no mandate to do so. She represented herself and her own j***** interest, but spoke ” in name of France”.
Many french were absolutly furious about it and said ” not in my name”
So this kind of behaviour – when you are a speaker, you represent YOUR country and ALL its citizens, being christians, jews or muslims or without any religion – is a.o.responsible for muslim attacks in France .
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When i go out, i always put in my pocket a golfball in a nylon stocking . To defend myself. Go and hit the head if you are attacked. You don t need much strengh to use it.
You can always exercise at home with tins or whatever you can. Fun
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Yes I agree, best to stay out of it. It’s a bloody fight people are getting killed. Not really a fan. Take their fight somewhere else please but not here. Bunch of psychopathic criminals.
Ah, beautiful Paris🌴 🕌🌴🐫