An attacker armed with a knife killed one person and injured another in Paris, next to the Eiffel Tower, in the 15th arrondissement, after shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”) before being detained by police, an attacker said. police source. by the AFP office.
The attacker was “born in France” and “French”, the same source said, quoted by the French news agency. The suspect is a 26-year-old young man known to authorities for following Islamic radicalism and having a mental illness, a French police source told AFP.
The injured man was treated by the Paris fire brigade.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérard Darmanin, is expected to arrive on the scene and wrote on the social network One person was killed and an injured person was handed over to the Paris fire brigade. It is advised to avoid the area.”
According to France-Presse (AFP), a security cordon was set up at the location, near the Eiffel Tower.
According to the French press, the murdered man was a tourist with dual German and Philippine nationality, who was stabbed in the back and shoulder on the emblematic Bir-Hakeim bridge over the Seine.
The injured man is, also according to the press, an English tourist who was walking with his wife and son on Avenida Presidente Kennedy and was hit on the head.
A police source told AFP it was possible a second person was injured, without giving details.
The French Public Prosecution Service has opened an investigation into murder and attempted murder.
Source: DN
