A person has died this afternoon and several more have been injured in the French city of Mulhouse, near the German border, for the attack with a white weapon of a man signed for terrorism that has been arrested, according to several media. The events have occurred before 4:00 p.m. in the city center and among the injured there are two agents in charge of the control of parking and three municipal police, according to The latest news from Alsacewhich has not given indications about the identity of the deceased.
The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has described the aggression as “Islamist terrorism.” The author shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is the greatest) as he launched his attack on local police, the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. An passerby tried to intervene and was dead, while three agents were injured.
“It is undoubtedly an act of Islamist terrorism,” Macron told journalists at the Annual Agriculture Fair, and has reported that Interior Minister is already addressed to Mulhouse.
He The latest news from Alsace He has indicated that the attack has occurred between Market Square and Lavoisier Street, which is where the suspect, a man born in 1987, of foreign nationality, against which the expulsion of France had been issued, has been arrested. The France Info station, citing the Prosecutor’s Office, has advanced that the author was signed for terrorism. The BFMTV channel has indicated that, waiting for the motivations of this event to be determined, the Mulhouse Prosecutor’s Office is working together with the National Anti -Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), which is competent in this case.