" All the light will be shed on this heinous act ," assured President Emmanuel Macron after the knife attack that left two dead and five injured Saturday morning April 4 in the center of Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme).
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“ My thoughts are with the victims of the Romans-sur-Isère attack, the injured, their families. All the light will be shed on this odious act which comes to mourn our country already hard hit these last weeks ", wrote the head of state on his Twitter account, while France has to face the epidemic of Covid-19 .
At the end of the afternoon, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner went on the spot. He denounced a " terrorist journey " before specifying that it will be up to the Anti-terrorist Prosecutor's Office to qualify the facts as such or not. The Minister praised the commitment of nursing staff and the police.
The suspect in this attack was arrested and taken into police custody. He is said to be a 33-year-old man of Sudanese nationality. This man was granted asylum in France. The cause of his gesture is not yet known.