Did he mean to desecrate the Qur’an, or was he distributing passages of it as a warning of impending jihad violence? No way to tell from this report.
“Paris: an S file who threw bits of the Koran arrested for knife attack, one injured,” translated from “Paris : un fiché S qui jetait des bouts de Coran interpellé pour agression au couteau, un blessé,” by Victor Eyraud, Valeurs Actuelles, June 6, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
A man was arrested at his home last night rue Meslay, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, following a knife attack rue Saint Martin, has learned Current Values confirming information from Actu17.
The author of the facts, Andy A., a 31-year-old man, of African type and of French nationality, is known for facts of “repeated death threat because of race, ethnicity, nation or religion,” on file S and close to the Islamist movement, indicates a police source to Valeurs Actuelles.
Earlier in the afternoon, at 3 p.m., the man was prowling in front of a hairdressing salon on rue Saint Martin. As he threw passages cut from a Koran on the ground, three men came out of the establishment to subdue him.
The assailant took a knife from his plastic bag, then struck one of them twice, hitting him on the inside of the right thigh and in the back, before fleeing.
The victim, a 50-year-old Pakistani man, was taken care of by SAMU and then transported to Georges Pompidou hospital. His vital prognosis is no longer engaged.
The identification of the author by a neighboring shopkeeper led to the establishment of a major police force mobilizing the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC), the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) and the Operational Support Group (GSO) within the perimeter of his residence.
The attacker was arrested by the Paris Security and Intervention Company (CSI 75) at 8:45 p.m., shortly after returning home. After the psychiatric expertise conducted by the doctor of the Medico-Legal Units (UMJ), Andy A. was taken to the hospital center of Sainte-Anne.
James Templar says
The French should urgently bring back the public guillotine. It was much safer to walk the streets back then, before Syrians arrived.
Eric Brazau says
that would not save French teacher Samuel Paty or…. “Dying for the cause of Allah is our objective”
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Did the Pakistani who came out of the shop to subdue the man do so because he perceived the man to be desecrating the koran? If so, who’s the real lunatic in this case?