A man who wielded a knife and shouted "Allah Akbar" today in Metz, eastern France, was arrested by the police. The man was injured by the agents but is not life threatening. Police sources specify that the man had threatened some officers and that he was "radicalized".
According to police sources, no one else was injured other than the arrested man, who walked the Metz boulevard de Guyenne with a kitchen knife shouting Allah Akbar.
The police, alerted, arrived on the spot in a few minutes.
At that point, the man turned to the agents aggressively and they opened fire and wounded him in the thigh.
The man, as far as we learn, is 30 years old and is registered as radicalized. Two days ago, in Villejuif, on the outskirts of Paris, a vendiduenne launched himself with a knife among passers-by, killing a man and injuring two women before being in turn shot and killed by the police. Even in that case, the attacker had shouted "Allah Akbar", sparing a first passerby just because he had recited a prayer in Arabic.
France, knife in hand cries Allah Akbar, injured
2020-01-05T15:26:16.858Z
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