France
Paris
knife attack wounds seven
Latest
update : 2018-09-10
Seven
people including two British tourists were wounded Sunday in Paris after they
were attacked by a man armed with a knife and an iron bar, according to police
and other sources.
A
source close to the inquiry said the suspect, believed to be an Afghan
national, has been arrested.
"Nothing
at this stage shows signs of a terrorist nature in these assaults," the
source said, adding that the attacker had targeted "strangers in the
street".
Of
the seven wounded, four are in a critical condition, police said.
The
incident took place just after 11:00pm (2100 GMT) on the banks of a canal in
the northeast of the capital.
A
security guard at one of two cinemas on either side of the Bassin de la
Villette, part of the Canal de l'Ourcq, said he saw a man who had already
assaulted people being chased by two other men who tried to stop him.
"He
had an iron bar in his hand which he threw at the men chasing him, then he took
out a knife," he told AFP.
Another
eyewitness, 28-year-old Youssef Najah, said he was walking along the canal near
a bowling green when he saw a man running and holding a knife about 25-30 cm
(10-11 inches) long.
"There
were around 20 people chasing him. They started throwing Petanque balls at
him," Najah said, referring to the sport popular in France also known as
boules.
"Around
four or five balls hit him in the head, but they weren't able to stop
him," he added.
According
to the same witness, the attacker then dived into an alleyway, where the man
"tried to hide behind two British tourists. We said to them: 'Watch out,
he has a knife". But they didn't react".
The
pair were then attacked, he said.
High
alert
A
police investigation has been launched for attempted murder, according to a
judicial source.
It
is the latest of several knife attacks France has seen in recent months, with
terrorism being ruled out in most cases.
On
August 23, a man stabbed his mother and sister to death and seriously injured
another person in a town near Paris before being shot dead by police.
The
motive for the violence remained unclear despite a claim by the Islamic State
(IS) group that it was an attack by one of its fighters responding to the
terror organisation's propaganda.
Authorities
said the 36-year-old had serious mental health problems and had been on a
terror watch list since 2016.
That
attack came days after an Afghan asylum-seeker was arrested in town of
Perigueux for a drunken rampage with a knife in which four people were wounded,
one seriously.
Police
said investigators had "very quickly" dismissed a terrorist motive
after the August 13 incident.
And
on June 17, two people were hurt in another southern town when a woman shouting
"Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) attacked them in a supermarket with
a boxcutter knife.
France
has been on high alert following a string of jihadist attacks in recent years,
often by people who have become radicalised or claim to have acted in the name
of the IS group.
More
than 240 people have been killed by Islamic extremists since a massacre at the
Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris in January 2015.
(AFP)
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