Off-duty
police officer detains man who attacked three women with knives in Paris
Two women
severely wounded before bystanders intervened in incident near Porte de Clichy
Reuters
in Paris
Mon 27
Jul 2026 17.59 BST
A man
attacked three women with knives in Paris before bystanders pinned him to the
ground and an off-duty police officer detained him, the French interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, has said.
The man
attacked the three women, aged 19, 24 and 36, with two kitchen knives, severely wounding two of them,
near Porte de Clichy on Monday, Nuñez said.
A video
shared on Snapchat and verified by Reuters showed a man with long black hair and wearing a cream tracksuit
wielding one big knife in each hand and attempting to attack and stab a young woman. It was unclear
if the woman was injured.
Mohamed-Ali
Bouhadjar, 26, who filmed the video and posted it on Snapchat, told Reuters:
“When I saw him stab a woman in the back, I started shouting: ‘Come on, let’s
stop him.’ Several people stepped in.
“One
person threw a suitcase at him. He dropped the knives. At that moment I
grabbed him, swept his legs out from under him, and we pinned him to the ground.”
Another
part of the video shows the same man in a tracksuit lying on the ground
immobilised by bystanders, while the two knives are seen lying nearby on a
pedestrian crossing.
“It is
Allah who commanded me,” the man lying on the floor says in the video.
Nuñez
said the man was detained by an off-duty police officer. “I pay tribute to him, it was a courageous act,” he added.
Nuñez
said earlier that the motive for the attack was unknown and police could not verify the identity of the attacker, whose
declarations were “incoherent” while he was being arrested.
The
French national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said it was considering
whether to open an investigation.
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