National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office France announced the opening of an investigation into the attack committed by a 26-year-old Frenchman who stabbed a German tourist and wounded two people in Paris shout: “Allah is great.”

This was stated by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. The aggressor was already facing four years in prison.shouted “Allahu Akbar” (Allahu Akbar) and had “serious psychiatric problems.”

In statements to the media, Darmanen has not yet confirmed that it was a jihadist attack and asked that justice be allowed to do its job.

The minister provided details about the identity of the attacker: a man born in 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (a suburb of Paris) and already sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison due to an attack stopped by the French authorities.

“For this reason has already been booked our intelligence services,” Darmanin said, explaining that the young man was being treated for “serious psychiatric problems.”

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The interior chief said police officers who intervened said the young man “couldn’t stand seeing Muslims dying in countries like Afghanistan and Palestine” before he was arrested by police who He neutralized it with a stun weapon.

The minister said that shortly after 9 p.m. Suspect fatally wounds German-Filipino tourist and that, thanks to the intervention of the taxi driver, the woman accompanying him was saved.

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That’s when the young man crossed the symbolic bridge over the Seine in Bir Hakeim and attacked two people, at least one of whom was a British citizen, with hammer blows. One was wounded in the eye, the other received bruises..

“None of their lives are in danger,” added Darmanin, who welcomed the agents’ “quick intervention.” (EFE)