Paris: Suspicion of terrorism – man with knife assaults gendarme at Arc de Triomphe | EUROtoday

A person armed with a knife attacked a gendarme on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The anti-terrorism public prosecutor’s workplace spoke of an assassination try and initiated an investigation into tried homicide with a terror connection and membership in a terrorist group, because the authority introduced. The attacker was shot by one other gendarme in the course of the incident early within the night and died.

The prosecutor mentioned the attacked gendarme was not bodily injured. The perpetrator attacked him not solely with a knife, but additionally with a pair of scissors.

The attacker was a Frenchman about 47 years outdated. In 2013 he was convicted in Brussels for, amongst different issues, the terrorist-motivated tried killing of cops. He was later transferred to France and was launched from jail on the finish of December. Even afterwards he was nonetheless monitored by the judiciary.

France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez spoke of an tried assault throughout preparations to gentle the so-called Eternal Flame. This flame under the triumphal arch commemorates deceased troopers. According to Nuñez, the person tried to assault somebody from the gendarmerie band. The motive for this isn’t but identified. A gendarme then used his weapon – in accordance with the foundations.

In distinction to cops, gendarmes are formally a part of the French military. As safety forces, the police and gendarmerie have totally different areas of accountability.