2023 Paris attack

2023 Paris attack
2023 Paris attack
	The Pont de Bir-Hakeim in 2018.
Location	near Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France
Date	2 December 2023; 12 months ago ; Just before 21:00 (CET (UTC+01:00))
Weapons	Knife and hammer
Deaths	1
Injured	2
Motive	Islamic extremism
Accused	Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab

On 2 December 2023, a French man of Iranian origin carried out a knife and hammer attack against three people near Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France, killing one of them.^[1]

Attack

On Quai de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, just before 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) on 2 December 2023, a man attacked three people using a knife and hammer as he allegedly shouted "Allahu Akbar".^[1] One victim was killed.^[1]

Reaction

Police tasered the suspect near the scene^[2] and arrested him for premeditated murder and terrorist-motivated attempted murder.^[1] President Emmanuel Macron described it as a terrorist attack.^[1]

Victims

The fatally attacked victim was a young man who was a tourist from the Philippines, who had immigrated to Germany.^[1] He was a nurse who was a naturalised German citizen.^[1] The surviving victims are a Frenchman aged around 60 and a 66-year-old British tourist.^[1]^[2]

Suspect

The suspect is Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoabis, a 26-year-old man who has mental health problems.^[1]^[2] He was born in France in 1997 to Iranian parents who fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979.^[1]^[2]^[3] He acquired French nationality on 20 March 2002, through the collective effort of his parents' naturalization.^[4]^[5] His birth first name was Iman, but it was changed in 2003.^[5] He was released from prison in 2020 after serving four years for planning an attack. Prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said the suspect had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Paris attack near Eiffel Tower leaves one dead and two injured". Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chris Liakos; Heather Chen; Mitchell McCluskey (3 December 2023). "One dead, two injured in Paris knife and hammer attack near Eiffel Tower". CNN. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
^ "Attaque à Paris : trois jours après, la mère du terroriste dit renier son fils". Le Figaro (in French). 5 December 2023. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
^ "JORF n° 0069 du 22 mars 2002 - Légifrance" (PDF). legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). p. 5141. Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Attaque à Paris : le terroriste Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab se prénommait Iman jusqu'en 2003". Le Figaro (in French). 3 December 2023. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

External links

"Le Sénat adopte un texte permettant la rétention de sûreté des terroristes". Le Monde.fr (in French). 31 January 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
"Attentats : « La radicalisation religieuse est-elle vraiment religieuse ? »". La Croix (in French). 5 January 2024. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 12 February 2024.

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[B-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Paris attack near Eiffel Tower leaves one dead and two injured". Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2023.

[CNN-2] Chris Liakos; Heather Chen; Mitchell McCluskey (3 December 2023). "One dead, two injured in Paris knife and hammer attack near Eiffel Tower". CNN. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

[3] "Attaque à Paris : trois jours après, la mère du terroriste dit renier son fils". Le Figaro (in French). 5 December 2023. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.

[4] "JORF n° 0069 du 22 mars 2002 - Légifrance" (PDF). legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). p. 5141. Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

[:0-5] "Attaque à Paris : le terroriste Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab se prénommait Iman jusqu'en 2003". Le Figaro (in French). 3 December 2023. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

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