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.