US EditionParis knife attacker 'swore allegiance to IS' terrorist group, suffered from mental issues
- French investigations into a fatal weekend attack near the Eiffel Tower are focusing on the mental health of the suspected assailant, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group before stabbing a tourist to death and injuring two others.
- The attacker, identified as Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, is a French national with a history of radicalism and spent over three years in prison on a terror conviction.
- The attack took place within the future security perimeter for the 2024 Summer Games, and France is on high alert due to the conflict between Israel and Hamas and recent lone-wolf attacks.
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'Failure' in psychiatric care of Paris attacker: minister
here was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalised Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a German tourist to death in central Paris at the weekend before being arrested, France’s interior minister said Monday. The attack close to the Eiffel Tower has increased concerns in France over the risk of Islamist attacks, particularly with the French capital now barely half a year away from hosting the 2024 summer Olympic G…
French minister warns country 'durably under threat from Islamist terrorism' after Paris stabbing suspect ID'd
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reportedly told TF1 television on Sunday that the country was "durably under threat from Islamist terrorism" after a prosecutor identified the French 26-year-old born to Iranian parents accused of fatally stabbing a German tourist and injuring two others steps away from the Eiffel Tower in Paris over the weekend. At a news conference on Sunday, France's top anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard …
Attack in Paris: psychiatrists are upset by the accusations of “failure” made by Gérald Darmanin
Bernard Granger, professor of psychiatry at the University of Paris Cité, deplores “a hot reaction in which people are looking for those responsible”, and points out “the still very great uncertainties about the passages to act”.
France opens investigation into fatal stabbing of tourist near Eiffel Tower
French anti-terrorism prosecutors said on Sunday that they had opened an investigation into the fatal attack against a 23-year-old German-Filipino tourist near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday evening. The attack took place at around 9 pm on Saturday. After killing the German-Filipino tourist with a knife, the attacker injured two other people, including a 60-year-old French national and a 66-year-old British national, with a hammer. French…
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