The individual who attacked several people with knives this Wednesday morning at the Gare du Nord (Paris) was under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). The assailant, in his twenties, was of Libyan nationality.
The man who injured six people this Wednesday, January 11 in the morning at the Gare du Nord (Paris), himself seriously injured by the police who overpowered him, is a Libyan born in 2000 under the influence of an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), we learned from a police source.
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The man being of Libyan nationality, France could not deport him to his country because of the instability which reigns there, the same source added. The French authorities do not maintain “no exchange channel for the identification of Libyan nationals”, she specified.
Six injured
Shortly before 6:45 a.m., the man attacked several people inside the Gare du Nord with a punch, injuring six, one of whom was seriously injured. An agent of the PAF (Border Police) is among the slightly injured. He had tried, in vain, according to a police source, to surround the assailant. Police officers managed to subdue him by shooting “three times” at him, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who went to the scene shortly after the incident.
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