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| A German tourist was killed and several other people were injured in central Paris late Saturday after a man attacked them with a knife and a hammer, the French authorities said. The case stirred fears of renewed Islamist terrorist attacks in a nation already on edge. | A German tourist was killed and several other people were injured in central Paris late Saturday after a man attacked them with a knife and a hammer, the French authorities said. The case stirred fears of renewed Islamist terrorist attacks in a nation already on edge. |
| A suspect was arrested nearby shortly after the assault. The authorities said he had serious psychiatric disorders and had told the police that he was upset over the deaths of Muslims in the world, including in Gaza. France’s national antiterrorism prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation. | A suspect was arrested nearby shortly after the assault. The authorities said he had serious psychiatric disorders and had told the police that he was upset over the deaths of Muslims in the world, including in Gaza. France’s national antiterrorism prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation. |
| Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said that a man had first attacked two German tourists shortly after 9 p.m. on the Quai de Grenelle, not far from the Eiffel Tower, killing one of them, a Filipino-born German man, with a knife. The other person, a woman, was not injured, Mr. Darmanin said. | Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said that a man had first attacked two German tourists shortly after 9 p.m. on the Quai de Grenelle, not far from the Eiffel Tower, killing one of them, a Filipino-born German man, with a knife. The other person, a woman, was not injured, Mr. Darmanin said. |
| “This person was clearly ready to kill other people,” Mr. Darmanin told reporters in Paris. | “This person was clearly ready to kill other people,” Mr. Darmanin told reporters in Paris. |
| France was struck by large-scale Islamist terrorist attacks in 2015 and 2016, and then by a string of smaller but deadly shootings and stabbings in subsequent years. The country is still on its highest terrorism threat alert after the killing in October of a teacher in northern France. | France was struck by large-scale Islamist terrorist attacks in 2015 and 2016, and then by a string of smaller but deadly shootings and stabbings in subsequent years. The country is still on its highest terrorism threat alert after the killing in October of a teacher in northern France. |
| “We won’t give in to terrorism,” Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said on X after Saturday’s attack. | |
| Mr. Darmanin did not identify the suspect but said that he was French, was born in 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, an upscale suburb of Paris, and had been on the radar of French intelligence services. | |
| The man was convicted in 2016 for a thwarted effort to carry out a “violent action” and was released in 2020, Mr. Darmanin said, without providing further details. |