{"id":270782,"date":"2024-07-16T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=270782"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:29:24","slug":"france-man-held-after-soldier-stabbed-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=270782","title":{"rendered":"France: Man held after soldier stabbed in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PARIS, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man was arrested Monday over the stabbing of an on-duty soldier in Paris, with the suspect known to police for a 2018 murder that saw him sent to a psychiatric unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack at the Gare de l’Est station in northern Paris came less than two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in the French capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soldier’s life was not in danger, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on social media platform X, while a police source said he had suffered a knife wound “between the shoulder blades”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 40-year-old suspect was arrested by other soldiers on patrol while the wounded man was taken to hospital “conscious”, the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public prosecutor in Paris has opened an investigation into attempted murder, which it said would seek to establish “the circumstances and the motivation”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suspect is a 40-year-old born in the Democratic Republic of Congo who obtained French nationality in 2006, a police source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suspect said he attacked the soldier “because the military kills people in his country”, another source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man was known to authorities in France over a 2018 murder that saw him detained in a psychiatric facility, two police sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He fatally stabbed a 22-year-old man at the Chatelet-les-Halles metro station in central Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was declared not legally responsible for the murder due to diminished responsibility and was never tried, according to a court judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Thoughts to the soldier injured tonight at the Gare de l’Est,” Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu wrote on X, paying tribute to the French troops protecting citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the soldier was part of a special military operation to protect sensitive sites in Paris that was deployed following the 2015 Islamist attacks on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have since been multiple attacks against the armed forces in the French capital, including at least four in 2017. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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