Paris police have detained a man who was walking around the city with a machete, reports Actu Paris, citing police and eyewitnesses.
“On Tuesday, November 3, a man armed with a machete was found on the streets of the 11th arrondissement of Paris,” the report said.
It is noted that at 11:30 (13:30 Moscow time), several eyewitnesses noticed a man with a machete in the metro at Père Lachaise station.
A source in law enforcement reported that a man with a machete was detained in one of the hotel rooms.
On October 29, in Nice, three people died after being attacked by a man with a knife near the North Dame Basilica. The Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, said that the attacker did not stop repeating “Allahu Akbar”, and everything indicates that what happened was a terrorist attack. A little later in the city of Avignon, a man tried to attack passers-by with a knife, but was shot by the police, broadcast Europe 1. In Lyon, a native of Afghanistan, writes Le Progress, brandished a knife at a tram stop, after which he was detained. At the police station, he stated that he had heard voices ordering him to commit murder.
Following these attacks, President Emmanuel Macron said that “France was attacked by an Islamist terrorist attack.”
