French police have apprehended a man suspected of carrying out a knife and hammer attack in central Paris, resulting in one person killed and two others injured. The incident occurred at Bir Hakeim, near the Eiffel Tower, as confirmed by France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who spoke to reporters at the scene on Saturday night.
France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin stated that the arrested individual was a French citizen who had been previously known to intelligence services.
According to France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, in the attack near the Eiffel Tower, one man—a German tourist born in the Philippines—lost his life, while two others sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Among the wounded was a British national, as confirmed by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office on Sunday. French police have apprehended
Responding to the incident, one of the police officers at the scene used a taser to neutralize the attacker. Darmanin clarified that the suspect’s life is not in jeopardy. After the arrest, the suspect reportedly stated that he could no longer bear to witness the deaths of Muslims in both Afghanistan and Palestine.
Addressing reporters, Darmanin said that the suspect was born in France in 1997 and had been sentenced to four years in prison back in 2016 for planning “violent action.”
The suspect was known to intelligence services for having “serious psychiatric disorders,” Darmanin added.
The minister said he had been told by police that the attacker had reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the assault.