Thursday, April 11, 2024 – A knifeman in France has been shot dead by police machine gun fire in Bordeaux after he reportedly stabbed one passer-by to death and wounded another.
The attack occurred just before 8pm on Wednesday in the
southwest French city, at the end of the evening rush hour.
'A police officer used his machine gun to kill the assailant
on the Left Bank of the Garonne river, just after he had attacks by the city
hall,' said an investigating source told Mail Online.
TV journalist Amaury Bucco said the attacker was a 'man
dressed in a djellaba and armed with a knife' close to the Pont de Pierre
[Peter Bridge].
There was no early indication as to the motive of the
stabbings, but it came on a night of high tension across France, following
warnings of an attack on football stadium by ISIS.
Local prosecutors confirmed that the attacker was dead,
along with one of his victims.
A third person suffered 'very serious stab wounds,' and was
in intensive care, said the source at the Bordeaux prosecutors office.
Witnesses said they saw the knifeman 'attack pedestrians
with a bladed weapon after telling them off for drinking.'
Prosecutors confirmed that the dead person stabbed in the
throat was an Algerian national, aged 36.
The investigating source said: 'The man was set upon in
Place de la Bourse [Stock Exchange Square] and was stabbed alongside at least
two others.
'The other two were wounded and taken to Bordeaux University
Hospital, but he died at the scene.
'The attacker had reproached a group of North African people
for having a drink – possibly because they should have been fasting during
Ramadan.'
Muslims avoid all food and drink during the Ramadan fast.
The period of religious prayer ended April 9 this year.
One police source said the attack had 'no terrorist
connotation for the moment'. The source said it was likely to be 'a brawl with
an unknown motive'.
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