In the case of an attack with a knife, one was dead and several injured in the French city of Mulhouse, close to the border with Germany. The mayor of the city reports this in a message On Facebook. The French news agency AFP writes that there were five injuries, including two agents who have hit the carotid artery and the chest. The mayor leaves the number of injured in the middle.
A suspect has been arrested, a 37-year-old Algerian man. He is said to be registered with the FSPRT, a kind of reporting point for terrorist radicalization, the public prosecutor Nicolas Heitz told AFP. The French President Emmanuel Macron also says in a first reaction on Saturday that “without a doubt an act from Islamic terrorism.”
The man is an acquaintance of the police. Newspaper Le Parisien writes That the man was previously convicted of propagating terrorism.
The stabbing took place just before 4 p.m. this afternoon, on the edge of a demonstration to support the Democratic Republic of Congo, in response to an offensive of the armed rebel movement M23. The suspect is said to have attacked local police officers and called “Allahu Akbar”. The fatal victim would have tried to stop him.
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