One person killed, two injured in stabbing attack in Paris suburb

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Source: CNN

One person was killed and two were injured in a stabbing attack in a Paris suburb Friday, a French government official confirmed.

Police killed the attacker, who stabbed people in a park in the suburb of Villejuif, south of Paris, French news channel BFM TV quoted Laurent Nunez, the secretary of state to the interior minister, as saying.

Nunez said the police had interrupted "a killing spree."

Loïc Travers, the secretary of the National Police Alliance for the Ile-de-France region, told BFM TV the attack took place around 2 p.m. in Villejuif (8 a.m. ET).

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/03/europe/france-villejuif-stabbing-intl/index.html

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It's almost the 5th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, so people are really tense here.

[GoneOffShore]

1. According to the report on M6 last night the attacker was a mentally disturbed man.

[oldsoftie]

4. Thats always the excuse when someone yells "Allahu Akbar"

The guy was wearing a suicide vest when killed. Most legit people with mental issues dont go thru the trouble of putting together a suicide vest
Witnesses told local media the attacker was yelling 'Allahu Akbar' as he launched the assault in the Hautes-Bruyères park in the Villejuif suburb shortly after 2pm on Friday.

Police said the man appeared to be wearing an explosive vest and had made off towards a Carrefour supermarket just under a mile away where he was 'neutralised,' shot several times and died at the scene.

[GoneOffShore]

5. Well, according to France24 he had been on medication and had been hospitalised.

A spokesman for the prosecutor whose office is handling the case said the attacker had been on medication for mental health issues that had led him to be hospitalised in recent months.

“There is no evidence at this stage suggesting he was radicalised,” the spokesman said.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200103-suspect-neutralised-after-stabbing-several-passers-by-outside-paris-police-say

[ck4829]

6. Well, it's also always the excuse when a non-Muslim goes on a shooting spree

But apparently saying "Allahu Ackbar" confers immunity to mental illness, huh, did not know that. I wonder if psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health researchers, etc. know about this...

[oldsoftie]

7. I guess it would save a lot of time!

[regnaD kciN]

2. Wondering if it's just a coincidence...

...that the attacks took place in a suburb whose name means “Town of the Jews”…?

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3. That's its medieval name; the big Jewish neighborhood is Neuilly now

But, yeah, that ran through my mind too