“Allahu Akbar” chant at the Eiffel Tower
Knife attacker kills people in Paris
December 2, 2023, 11:42 p.m
One person was killed and another injured in a possibly Islamist-motivated knife attack in the French capital Paris. As the AFP news agency learned from police circles in the evening, the suspected assassin was arrested. He is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) during the crime. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin praised the police’s “courageous” intervention in the short message service X (formerly Twitter).
According to police sources, the suspected perpetrator was a Frenchman born in France with mental problems who was known as a radical Islamist. He stated that he could not bear the fact that Muslims were being killed in the world.
The crime therefore took place in the 15th arrondissement; an AFP reporter saw barriers not far from the Eiffel Tower. The minister advised the population to avoid the area near the Quai de Grenelle. The French counter-terrorism prosecutor’s office said it had not yet started any investigations.