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PARIS — A man with a large knife was shot by a French soldier on Friday after he lunged at four soldiers, shouting “God is great” in Arabic near the Louvre Museum in Paris, the police said, immediately raising tensions in a country that has been the site of several terrorist attacks in the past two years.
The Paris police chief, Michel Cadot, said that the man, who was seriously wounded, had been carrying two backpacks but that there was no indication they had contained explosives. The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a terrorism investigation, but the authorities said the suspect’s motives were unclear.
The suspect was shot five times at the bottom of a stairway that connects the Tuileries Gardens with the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping center through which visitors can also gain access to the museum. But he did not reach the typically crowded mall itself, nor the main entrance of the museum. One soldier has a minor scalp injury.
France has been under a state of emergency for more than a year, since attacks in and around the city in November 2015 left 130 people dead, and it has since been hit by several deadly assaults.
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Although the effectiveness of deploying soldiers alongside police officers and gendarmes to protect civilians has been questioned — about 10,000 soldiers around the country now patrol — their presence is an increasingly accepted feature of the country’s efforts to confront the terrorist threat.
President Trump, in a post on Twitter, said: “A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.” But there was no publicly available information to support his claim about the assailant.
The authorities cordoned off the large central courtyard of the Louvre, which has long been considered a possible target of extremists, and the museum was put under tight security.
Photographs posted on Twitter showed visitors to the museum sitting on the floor, checking their smartphones, and then leaving after the authorities had brought the situation under control.
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PARIS — A man with a large knife was shot by a French soldier on Friday after he lunged at four soldiers, shouting “God is great” in Arabic near the Louvre Museum in Paris, the police said, immediately raising tensions in a country that has been the site of several terrorist attacks in the past two years.
The Paris police chief, Michel Cadot, said that the man, who was seriously wounded, had been carrying two backpacks but that there was no indication they had contained explosives. The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a terrorism investigation, but the authorities said the suspect’s motives were unclear.
The suspect was shot five times at the bottom of a stairway that connects the Tuileries Gardens with the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping center through which visitors can also gain access to the museum. But he did not reach the typically crowded mall itself, nor the main entrance of the museum. One soldier has a minor scalp injury.
France has been under a state of emergency for more than a year, since attacks in and around the city in November 2015 left 130 people dead, and it has since been hit by several deadly assaults.
Continue reading the main story
RELATED COVERAGE
French Terrorism Suspects Appeared Anything But DEC. 14, 2016
A Third of Nice Truck Attack’s Dead Were Muslim, Group Says JULY 19, 2016
Paris Attacks Suspect Killed in Shootout Had Plotted Terror for 11 Months NOV. 19, 2015
STATE OF TERROR
In Rise of ISIS, No Single Missed Key but Many Strands of Blame NOV. 18, 2015
NEWS ANALYSIS
The French Way of Fighting Homegrown Terrorism MARCH 30, 2012
Although the effectiveness of deploying soldiers alongside police officers and gendarmes to protect civilians has been questioned — about 10,000 soldiers around the country now patrol — their presence is an increasingly accepted feature of the country’s efforts to confront the terrorist threat.
President Trump, in a post on Twitter, said: “A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.” But there was no publicly available information to support his claim about the assailant.
The authorities cordoned off the large central courtyard of the Louvre, which has long been considered a possible target of extremists, and the museum was put under tight security.
Photographs posted on Twitter showed visitors to the museum sitting on the floor, checking their smartphones, and then leaving after the authorities had brought the situation under control.
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Assailant Near Louvre Is Shot by French Soldier
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TSgt Joe C. The American people and the World need to understand that this threat has been growing way before 911 and it will not go away! We need to be aggressive and go after wherever it exists! Just my opinion!
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That is great news that the Muslim assailant with a large knife was shot by a French soldier on Friday after he lunged at four soldiers, shouting “God is great” in Arabic near the Louvre Museum in Paris TSgt Joe C..
Hopefully this incident will alert the French, Dutch and Germans to the threat of Muslim refugees.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
Hopefully this incident will alert the French, Dutch and Germans to the threat of Muslim refugees.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
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the Europeans are getting fed Up the Muslim's Crap...
sooner or later they are go old School Crusader On the bastards... and Push them back to At least Turkey...
sooner or later they are go old School Crusader On the bastards... and Push them back to At least Turkey...
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