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| French authorities are treating Saturday night's stabbing in Paris, which left one person dead, as a terrorist attack, the Paris prosecutor has said. He cited witnesses who said that the attacker shouted “Allahu akbar.” | French authorities are treating Saturday night's stabbing in Paris, which left one person dead, as a terrorist attack, the Paris prosecutor has said. He cited witnesses who said that the attacker shouted “Allahu akbar.” |
| Several witnesses earlier told media outlets that they heard the assailant shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he was stabbing passersby and attempted to storm into a restaurant near the Opera House in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, where the rampage took place on Saturday evening. | Several witnesses earlier told media outlets that they heard the assailant shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he was stabbing passersby and attempted to storm into a restaurant near the Opera House in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, where the rampage took place on Saturday evening. |
| Paris prosecutor François Molins said that the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor’s office was dealing with the attack. | Paris prosecutor François Molins said that the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor’s office was dealing with the attack. |
| “At this stage, on the basis of testimonies mentioning the fact that the aggressor shouted 'Allahu akbar' when attacking passersby with a knife, given the modus operandi, we dispatched the anti-terrorist section of the prosecutor's office,” he said. | “At this stage, on the basis of testimonies mentioning the fact that the aggressor shouted 'Allahu akbar' when attacking passersby with a knife, given the modus operandi, we dispatched the anti-terrorist section of the prosecutor's office,” he said. |
| French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to link the stabbing attack to the terrorism-related tragedies that have hit France in the recent years. | French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to link the stabbing attack to the terrorism-related tragedies that have hit France in the recent years. |
| “France once again paid the price of blood but did not give an inch to the enemies of freedom,” Macron wrote on Twitter in the wake of the attack. | “France once again paid the price of blood but did not give an inch to the enemies of freedom,” Macron wrote on Twitter in the wake of the attack. |
| The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the attack through its propaganda mouthpiece. The agency affiliated with the group called the assailant a “soldier” and stated that the stabbing is a response to its calls for attacks on countries involved in an anti-terrorist campaign in Syria and Iraq. This claim has not been confirmed by the investigators yet. | The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the attack through its propaganda mouthpiece. The agency affiliated with the group called the assailant a “soldier” and stated that the stabbing is a response to its calls for attacks on countries involved in an anti-terrorist campaign in Syria and Iraq. This claim has not been confirmed by the investigators yet. |
| A spate of deadly terrorist attacks by ISIS-affiliated militants has claimed over 200 lives in France in the last three years. The coordinated attacks in Paris and its suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis in November 2015 left over 130 people dead and hundreds injured. In July 2016, at least 86 people were killed in Nice when a truck driven by an ISIS sympathizer mowed down revelers celebrating Bastille Day. After the 2015 attacks, a state of emergency was imposed in the country, which was only lifted in November of last year. | |
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