Fatal screen in France and ‘Islamic terrorist act’, says Macron

A person is dead and two police officers are seriously injured after a knife attack in eastern France that President Emmanuel Macron said it was a “Islamist horror law.”

Prosecutors said three more officers were slightly injured in the attack in the city of Mulhouse shortly before 4 pm on Saturday local time.

Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz said the attack was carried out by a 37 -year -old boy who was on a list of observation of terror prevention and is now in custody.

Of the two seriously injured officers, one suffered an injury in the carotid artery and the other to the thorax, Heitz said.

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said that the French authorities had made several attempts to extradite the suspect, but that his Native Algeria had refused to accept it.

The National Unit of Anti-terror Prosecutors of France (PNAT), which took over the investigation, said that the suspect attacked the municipal police officers for the first time and shouted “Allahu Akbar”, an Arab phrase that means “God It is greater. “

The witnesses told AFP that the suspect had shouted the words several times.

A civil passerby that intervened was fatally injured, said the PNAT in a statement. According to Mulhouse prosecutors, he was a 69 -year -old Portuguese citizen.

Macron said that “no doubt” the incident was “an Islamist terrorist act.”

The government was determined to continue doing “everything to eradicate terrorism in our soil,” Macron said.

France tried to extradite the stabbing suspect 10 times

The terror surveillance list, called FSPRT, compiles data from several authorities in individuals with the aim of preventing “terrorist” radicalization.

It was released in 2015 after mortal attacks against the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and in a Jewish supermarket.

Retilleau was expected to travel to the attack scene later on Saturday.

The Police established a security parameter after the attack that occurred during a demonstration in support of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in an occupied part of Mulhouse, a city of around 110,000 inhabitants.

The military units were sent to the scene as support and forensic scientists sought evidence, working hurriedly to examine blood stains before the rain washed them.

The suspect was born in Algeria and has been under judicial supervision and house arrest, with an order of expulsion from France.

The 37 -year -old man arrived in France without official migration documents in 2014 and was arrested and condemned for glorifying terrorism due to Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel, said Retilleau.

Police experts ″ had detected a schizophrenic profile ″ in the suspect, according to the Interior Minister.

After several months in prison for that sentence, the suspect was limited to house arrest, since the authorities sought to expel Algeria.

Retailleau also told the French station TF1 that France had tried to expel him 10 times, and the Algerians refused to accept it every time.

AP/AFP