French knife attack kills 1, injuries at least 2 in what Macron calls terrorism – National
A knife attack on Saturday in the East France She left one person dead and at least two wounded, the authorities said, in the violence that President Emmanuel Macron labeled as Islamic extremism.
The 37-year-old Algerian man was arrested, prosecutors said. The attack occurred in the French city of Mulhouse near the covered market on the channel side. The area borders with Germany and Switzerland.
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The French prosecution against terrorism said he was investigating. Macron said that the perpetrator was an Islamic extremist, adding that the Government had a “complete determination” to respond to the attack.
France was on high standby for extremist threats. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau went to the scene on Saturday night.
The victim was a 69-year-old Portuguese man, the prosecution against terrorism said. Those wounded were police officers who intervened.
The suspect was on the list of people marked by radicalism, said the regional prosecutor.
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