Men also arrested with knife in Lyon and Paris: “He is...

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On Thursday afternoon, a man with a knife was arrested in the center of the French city of Lyon. That reports the French newspaper Le Figaro. According to Le Parisien, a man was also arrested near Paris who, according to his father, “wanted to do the same as in Nice”.

In Lyon, it is said to be a man of Afghan descent, born in 1994, who was known to the intelligence services. He was wearing a djellaba and a military jacket and was swinging a knife around. Several phone calls came in to the emergency services, according to the French newspaper, after which the police went to the scene and arrested the man. The news is confirmed on Twitter by Pierre Oliver, mayor of Lyon’s second arrondissement.

A man with a knife was also arrested in Sartrouville, a municipality near the French capital. He was close to the Saint-Martin church. It was his father who informed the police. According to the latter, his son would have “planned the same as in Nice”. So far there is no clarity about the age of the man.

On Thursday morning, two knife attacks already took place in France. In the southern French city of Nice, three people died after a man attacked them in Notre-Dame Cathedral. Not much later an attack in Avignon could be thwarted. A man also tried to attack a security officer at the French embassy in Saudi Arabia.

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Earlier this month, teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in the street after showing a Mohammed cartoon in class. Interestingly, the Islamic world’s anger over France sharply increased on Wednesday when Turkey condemned a Charlie Hebdo cartoon in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lifted a woman’s burqa to look at her bare buttocks. Earlier today, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addressed France when he warned that insulting the prophet “would encourage violence and bloodshed.”

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