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Added on the 04/12/2023 13:16:28 - Copyright : AFPTV - First 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
Images from the Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police, home to the anti-terrorist section (SAT), where the attacker who stabbed one person to death and wounded another in Paris on Saturday is being held in police custody. IMAGES
French police officers stand guard on Bir-Hakeim Bridge in Paris near the site where an attacker stabbed a German tourist to death and injured two other people before being arrested. IMAGES ++ COMPLETES VIDI346U3K9_EN and VIDI346T9RW_EN ++
Police stand near the site in Paris where an attacker stabbed a person to death and wounded another before being detained, according to a French police source. IMAGES