One man was killed and another two were injured in a knife and hammer attack near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Dec. 2, 2023.Photo:AP Photo/Christophe Ena
AP Photo/Christophe Ena
A suspect has been arrested after one man died and two others were injured in a knife and hammer attack in Paris on Saturday night.
The man killed in the attack was a German tourist and nurse, per the outlet.
France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told BBC that the suspect fatally stabbed the victim on the street while he was with his wife, Rose-Marie Devillers.
He then attacked two more victims, a French man around 60 years old and a 66-year-old British tourist, hitting the latter in the eye with a hammer, per BBC.
Police arrested a suspect in connection with a Dec. 2 Paris attack that left one man dead and two people injrued.Sipa via AP
Sipa via AP
Police then tasered and arrested the suspect on suspicion of assassination — which French law defines as premeditated murder — and “attempted assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise,” according to the BBC.
Darmanin, perReuters, said the suspect allegedly was heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” — an Arabic phrase meaning “God is great.” He reportedly told authorities he was upset because “so many Muslims are dying in Afghanistan and in Palestine,” per BBC.
The suspect was known to intelligence services before the attack, the outlet reported. In 2020, he was released from prison after serving four years for planning an attack, and was supposed to be receiving treatment for psychiatric problems.
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Anti-terrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation into the incident, French President Emmanuel Macron announced in aposton X (formerly Twitter).
“I send all my condolences to the family and loved ones of the German national who died this evening during the terrorist attack in Paris and think with emotion of the people currently injured and in care,” Macron wrote, translated from French.
A man died and two others were injured in an attack near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Dec. 2.Sipa via AP
The French president also thanked emergency services and said that the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office “will be responsible for shedding light on this matter so that justice can be done in the name of the French people.”
The chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, also shared aposton X about the attack.
source: people.com
