Authorities urged citizens to temporarily avoid the area where the attack took place.
The attack in central Paris left one person dead and another injured.
The BBC reports this.
The head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gerald Darmanin, said that the attacker was aiming at passers-by on the Grenelle embankment, which is located next to the Eiffel Tower.
He noted that the wounded man was receiving all the necessary assistance, and the attacker was detained.
In addition, authorities urged citizens to temporarily avoid visiting the area where the attack took place.
Journalist sources said the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” before the attack.
According to BFMTV, the attacker was Armand R., a Frenchman born in 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, known to French law enforcement as a radical Islamist and having “serious psychiatric problems.”
Let us recall that it was previously reported that in Paris the police opened fire on a woman who allegedly expressed threats to blow herself up at a railway station .
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