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| 2023 Paris attack | |
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 The Pont de Bir-Hakeim in 2018 | |
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| Location | Near thePont de Bir-Hakeim inParis,France |
| Date | 2 December 2023; 22 months ago (2023-12-02) Just before 21:00 (CET (UTC+01:00)) |
| Weapons | machete andhammer |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Injured | 2 |
| Motive | Islamic extremism |
| Accused | Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoabis |
On 2 December 2023, a French man carried out a machete and hammer attack against 3 people near thePont de Bir-Hakeim inParis, France, killing 1 of them.[1] The suspect was allegedly motivated byIslamic extremism.
On Quai de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, just before 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) on 2 December 2023, a man attacked three people using a knife and hammer as he allegedly shouted "Allahu Akbar".[1] One victim was killed.[1]
Police tasered the suspect near the scene[2] and arrested him for premeditated murder and terrorist-motivated attempted murder.[1] PresidentEmmanuel Macron described it as a terrorist attack.[1]
The fatally attacked victim was a young man who was a tourist from thePhilippines, who had immigrated toGermany.[1] He was a nurse who was a naturalised German citizen.[1] The surviving victims are a Frenchman aged around 60 and a 66-year-old British tourist.[1][2]
The suspect is Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoabis, a 26-year-old man who has mental health problems.[1][2] He was born in France in 1997 to Iranian parents who fled theIranian Revolution in 1979.[1][2][3] He acquiredFrench nationality on 20 March 2002, through the collective effort of his parents'naturalization.[4][5] His birth first name was Iman, but it was changed in 2003.[5] He was released from prison in 2020 after serving four years for planning an attack. Prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said the suspect had pledged allegiance to theIslamic State.[1]
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