“The victims are believed to have been targeted at random and a motive has not yet been established.”
Yeah, it’s a real mystery. In other news, a large number of Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt said the pilots’ motives were unclear, and cautioned against Japanophobia.
An update on this story. “‘Terrorist’ knifeman wearing a fake explosive vest is shot dead in Paris after stabbing four people and ‘killing a 56-year-old man who was trying to protect his wife,'” by Peter Allen and Ross Ibbetson, Mailonline, January 3, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):
An alleged terrorist who was wearing a mock explosive vest was shot dead in Paris this afternoon after stabbing four people, killing a man who was trying to protect his wife, the mayor said.
Witnesses told local media the attacker was yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he launched the assault in the Hautes-Bruyères park in the Villejuif suburb shortly after 2pm on Friday.
Police said the man appeared to be wearing an explosive vest and had made off towards a Carrefour supermarket just under a mile away where he was ‘neutralised,’ shot several times and died at the scene.
Mayor of Villejuif Franck Le Bohellec told Le Parisen the dead man was a 56-year-old who ‘was walking with his wife when the attacker approached, he wanted to protect his wife and it was he who took this stab.’
Two others have been rushed to Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital and remain in a ‘critical condition’, authorities said….
Footage taken at the scene showed armed police moving through the car park of the supermarket and firing shots at the attacker who was seen lying in the middle of a road.
The victims are believed to have been targeted at random and a motive has not yet been established.
A police union source said: ‘Four people were attacked by an individual in the Hautes-Bruyères park, near a supermarket.
‘The attacker was armed with a knife and was lashing out at anyone he could.’…