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Anti-Terror Inquiry Opens After Knife Attack at Arc de Triomphe

Investigators are examining possible terrorism links at a highly symbolic memorial ceremony.

Overview

  • A man launched a knife attack during the daily Tomb of the Unknown Soldier flame ceremony in Paris, lightly injuring a gendarme.
  • Gendarmes opened fire and seriously wounded the suspect, who was treated at the scene and taken to hospital.
  • Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the assailant tried to take a gendarme’s life as the national anti-terror prosecutor opened a probe.
  • A prosecutor’s magistrate went to the site and authorities closed the Charles-de-Gaulle–Étoile metro station for security reasons.
  • The suspect lives in Seine-Saint-Denis and is registered under the MICAS administrative monitoring program, according to ANSA.