The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation for assassination and attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise, after the knife attack which left one dead and two injured in Paris, at the Bir Hakeim metro station, in the evening from Saturday December 2. The attacker was taken into custody. Follow our live stream.
Political reactions after the attack. Emmanuel Macron addressed his “condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased German national” And “think with emotion” to the injured, in a message on. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne also greeted “the courage and professionalism of our law enforcement and our mobilized emergency services”.
The assailant known to the police. Armand R., a Frenchman born in 1997 to Iranian parents, was arrested around 9:30 p.m. shortly after the events and placed in police custody. He was on S file, known for radical Islamism and psychiatric disorders, said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on site.
A German tourist fatally injured. The two other injured people, attacked with a hammer, are “a man of foreign nationality and a Frenchman of around sixty years old”detailed Gérald Darmanin.