A man has died and two others, including a British man, have been injured in a knife-and-hammer attack on a street in central Paris.
The attack occurred near the Eiffel Tower shortly before 21:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Saturday.
A 26-year-old French national known to security services has been arrested and anti-terrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation.
The man killed was a German tourist who worked as a nurse.
France’s Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, said the victim was with his wife when he was attacked and fatally stabbed on Quai de Grenelle.
He said the wife’s life was saved by the intervention of a taxi driver and that the suspect fled across a nearby bridge spanning the River Seine.
After crossing to the north side of the river he attacked two more people, hitting the 66-year-old British victim in the eye with a hammer.
The suspect was then Tasered by police and arrested on suspicion of assassination – defined in French law as premeditated murder – and “attempted assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise”.
Video published online appeared to show the moment the suspect was apprehended by armed police not far from where the attack happened.
He has been named in French media as Armand R, a 26-year-old French national with Iranian parents.
The two people injured – a Frenchman aged around 60 and a British tourist – were treated by emergency services, with neither found to be in a life-threatening condition. —BBC
