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2023 Paris attack | |
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Location | near Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France |
Date | 2 December 2023 Just before 21:00 ( CET ( UTC+01:00)) |
Weapons | Knife and hammer |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 2 |
Motive | Islamic extremism |
Accused | Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab |
On 2 December 2023, a French man of Iranian origin carried out a knife and hammer attack against three people near Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France, killing one of them. [1]
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] President Emmanuel Macron described it as a terrorist attack. [1]
The fatally attacked victim was a young man who was a tourist from the Philippines, who had immigrated to Germany. [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 the Iranian Revolution in 1979. [1] [2] [3] He acquired French nationality on 20 March 2002, through the collective effet 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. He has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. [1]