One German tourist man has been killed and two were injured in a knife and hammer attack on a street in central Paris.The attack occurred on Quai de Grenelle, near the Eiffel Tower around 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 2, 2023.
The perpetrator of the attack has been arrested and anti-terrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation.
France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the victim, born in 1999, was with his wife when he was attacked and fatally stabbed.
He said the wife’s life was saved by the intervention of a taxi driver and that the suspect fled across a nearby bridge spanning the River Seine.
The man then attacked two more people, hitting one in the eye with a hammer, the minister said.
The suspect was then tasered by police and arrested on suspicion of assassination – defined in French law as pre-meditated murder – and attempted assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise.
The two people injured—a Frenchman aged around 60 and a foreign tourist—were treated by emergency services, with neither found to be in a life-threatening condition.
A police operation was initiated around the Bir-Hakeim metro station on Saturday night, and authorities urged people to avoid the area.
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