Police arrest 26-year-old man, who was on French intelligence watchlist, after passersby attacked near Eiffel Tower
One person was killed and two others injured after a man attacked tourists in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower, the French interior minister said on Saturday.
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One person was killed and two others injured after a man attacked tourists in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower, the French interior minister said on Saturday.
Police quickly arrested the 26-year-old man, a French national, using a Taser stun gun, Gérald Darmanin told reporters.
The suspect was on the French security services’ watchlist and had a history of mental illness, the interior minister added.
The attack took place about 7pm GMT when the man attacked a tourist couple with a knife on the Quai de Grenelle, a few feet away from the Eiffel Tower, mortally wounding a German national.
The suspect had shouted out “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and told police he was upset because “so many Muslims are dying in Afghanistan and in Palestine” and was also upset about the Gaza situation, Darmanin said.
The antiterrorism prosecutor’s office has been put in charge of an investigation, Agence France Presse said.
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