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Added on the 25/09/2020 13:32:00 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A man suspected of stabbing several people at the Gare de Lyon in Paris has been arrested, according to a provisional report from the Préfecture de Police. Images filmed at Gare de Lyon after the attack. IMAGES
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne accuses Marine Le Pen and her far-righ party National Rally of "fuelling polemics" after Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, which has put the executive under pressure in the face of the jihadist threat. SOUNDBITE
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE