2018 Paris knife attack
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On 12 May 2018, a 20-year-old Chechnya-born French citizen,[3] armed with a knife, killed one pedestrian and injured four others near the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris, France, before being fatally shot by police.[4] The stabbings were in the area of Rue Saint-Augustin and Passage Choiseul.[5] French President Emmanuel Macron said France had "paid once again the price of blood but will not cede an inch to the enemies of freedom."[6] The suspect, identified as Khamzat Azimov, had been on a counter-terrorism watchlist since 2016. Amaq News Agency posted a video of a hooded person pledging allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, claimed to be the attacker.[7] Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism.[8]
2018 Paris knife attack | |
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Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
Location | Paris, France |
Coordinates | 48.8683°N 2.335956°E / 48.8683; 2.335956 |
Date | 12 May 2018 8:47 p.m. CET |
Target | pedestrians |
Attack type | Stabbing |
Weapons | Knives |
Deaths | 2 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 4 |
Perpetrator | Khamzat Azimov[1] |
Motive | Islamic extremism |