According to the French Press Agency (AFP), the attacker had radical Islamist views.
“The attacker who stabbed a man to death in Paris reportedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar,'” the newspaper reported.
Later, the French Interior Minister announced the arrest of the attacker. As a result of the attack in Paris, a tourist from Germany was killed and two other people were injured. This was announced by the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“The police have just bravely arrested an attacker on passers-by in Paris, near the Quai Grenelle. One wounded person was treated at the Paris Fire Brigade. Please avoid this place,” Darmanin wrote on his page.
“A second person was injured and is being treated,” police added.
A video of the police operation to apprehend the attacker has appeared online.
Police told AFP that the attacker was born in France and is French. The suspect is known for radical Islamism and mental disorders.
In 2016, the attacker was convicted of planning another attack and was under the surveillance of French security services. During his arrest, he told police that he was “upset” by the situation in the Gaza Strip.. He previously spent four years in a French prison for planning a terrorist attack.
Terrorist attacks in France
In October, a Russian man attacked a school in a northern French city with a knife, killing a literature teacher and injuring two others. He was detained by the police.
Afterwards, a regime of increased terrorist threat was introduced in the country. Later, the transport minister said that France would intensify patrols of railways and airports.
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2023-12-03 00:26:05