One dead and more injured in France knife attack by ‘terror suspect who yelled Allahu Akbar’

From the Daily Mail and Le Figaro. The English language French press haven’t got this yet. 

A police officer has died and four more have been injured in a suspected knife terror attack in France.

The bloodbath unfolded at a market in the eastern city of Mulhouse, on the border of Germany, on Saturday afternoon when witnesses heard the cry ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is the Greatest’.

Police were among those slashed repeatedly by the man – an Algerian aged 37 who was on a terrorist watch list and faced deportation.

‘The man was attending a police station to sign his judicial control form connected with his house arrest,’ said an investigating source.

‘He refused to do this, and instead attacked a number of people with a knife. Those hurt included at least three municipal police officers.’

The man was arrested at the scene, at around 4pm, and was confirmed as being on an anti-terrorist watch list by Nicolas Heitz, the Mulhouse prosecutor

The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has announced that it is taking over the investigation, opened for murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise and attempted murder of persons in public authority, in connection with a terrorist enterprise. “A civilian person who intervened has died,” the PNAT said in a statement. (other reports have the fatality as a police officer) 

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, is expected on site in the evening. The incident took place shortly before 4 p.m., on the sidelines of a demonstration in support of Congo. (30 Congolese Christians were found in their church beheaded by jihadists only last week) 

Emmanuel Macron spoke of an “act of terrorism”, “Islamist”, “which is not in doubt”, expressing “the solidarity of the whole Nation”. The head of state indicated that the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who is due to go to the site, “will speak (Saturday) evening to give the details on the case”. “I mean … the determination of the government and myself to continue the work that has been ours for eight years to do everything possible to eradicate terrorism on our soil,” he added on the sidelines of a visit to the Paris Agricultural Show.