A suspect has been arrested after one man was killed and two others injured in a knife and hammer attack in Paris on Saturday night.
The incidents, which took place shortly before 9 p.m. local time near the Eiffel Tower, were allegedly carried out by a 26-year-old French citizen whose parents are Iranian, whose identity has not been confirmed, reports the BBC.
The man killed in the attack was a German tourist and a nurse, according to the outlet.
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French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told the BBC that the suspect fatally stabbed the victim in the street while he was with his wife Rose-Marie Devillers.
After the taxi driver intervened and saved Devillers’ life, the alleged attacker fled to a nearby bridge and crossed the Seine River, the 41-year-old Darmanin said.
He then attacked two more victims, a Frenchman aged around 60 and a 66-year-old British tourist, hitting him in the eye with a hammer, writes the BBC.
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the Dec. 2 attack in Paris that left one man dead and two others injured.
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Both victims were helped by an ambulance, and none of them suffered life-threatening injuries, said Darmanin. The New York Times.
Police then tracked down and arrested the suspect on suspicion of assassination – which French law defines as premeditated murder – and “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist undertaking”, according to the BBC.
Darmanin, according to Reuters, said the suspect was allegedly heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” – an Arabic term meaning “God is great.” He reportedly told authorities he was upset because “so many Muslims are dying in Afghanistan and Palestine,” according to the BBC.
The suspect was known to intelligence services before the attack, the paper reported. In 2020, he was released from prison after serving four years for planning the attack, and was supposed to undergo treatment for psychiatric problems.
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Counter-terrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation into the incident, French President Emmanuel Macron announced in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
“I send all my condolences to the family and loved ones of the German citizen who died tonight during the terrorist attack in Paris and I think with emotion of the people who are currently injured and are being cared for,” Macron wrote, translated from French.
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A man was killed and two others were injured in an attack near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on December 2.
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The French president also thanked the emergency services and said that the state prosecutor’s office for combating terrorism “will be responsible for shedding light on this matter so that justice is served on behalf of the French people.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also shared a post on X about the attack.
“I am shocked by the terrorist attack in Paris in which one German was killed and several people were injured,” Scholz wrote in a translation from German. “Our thoughts are with the injured, the families and friends of the victims. It becomes clear again why we stand resolutely against hatred and terror.”
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