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Paris Terrorist Attack; German Tourist Killed, 2 Injured -Radical Islamist Detained
German Tourist Killed and Two Others Injured in Central Paris Terrorist Attack
Man known to authorities as radical Islamist detained after German man killed and two – one British and one French – injured near Eiffel Tower
BBC 3 DEC 2023
'A man who had served a prison sentence for planning a radical Islamist attack', and who was undergoing psychiatric treatment allegedly stabbed a German tourist to death and wounded two others – one British, one French – in a neighbourhood near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday night.... KICK HIM OUT...
The attack took place shortly after 9pm near the Bir Hakeim bridge in an area popular with tourists. France is on its highest alert for attacks against the background of the war between Israel and Hamas.
The alleged attacker first targeted a German couple near the bridge, fatally stabbing a 23-year-old man who was a German-Filipino citizen. A passing taxi driver intervened to stop him, but the suspect ran away across the bridge to the other side of the River Seine, attacking two more people – a 66-year-old British man and a 60-year-old French national. He allegedly injured one with a hammer.
Police pursued him and used a stun gun??.. to stop him. The 26-year-old was being questioned by anti-terrorism police on Sunday morning.
The UK Foreign Office said it was “supporting a British man who was injured in Paris and are in contact with the local authorities”
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