At least one dead and three injured in a terrorist knife attack in France

BarcelonaA 69-year-old Portuguese man has died and at least three police officers have been injured, one of them seriously, in a knife attack this Saturday in the French city of Mulhouse, in the northeast of the country and near the border with Germany. The perpetrator, a 37-year-old Algerian man who had an expulsion order from France and who was on file with the anti-terrorist services, was arrested, according to the Mulhouse prosecutor, Nicolas Heitz. The Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation for murder and attempted murder of persons in public authority. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, has reacted quickly and has pointed out that "without a doubt, this is an Islamist terrorist act."

The events occurred shortly before four in the afternoon, local time, in the Market Square of this Alsatian city where a demonstration was being held in support of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country suffering from a war. The suspect was quickly captured on a nearby street after committing the stabbing. According to authorities, the man repeatedly screamed Allah is the greatest while carrying out the attack.

Macron, who was visiting the Paris Agricultural Show, has underlined his "determination" to eradicate these acts of horror that have been punishing France in particular for years. "We maintain the determination, both the government and I, to continue the work we have done for eight years to eradicate terrorism on our territory," said the president, who wanted to send "the solidarity of the nation with the family" of the deceased.

"Fanaticism has struck us again and we are in mourning," reacted the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, on the social network X. "My thoughts naturally go to the victims and their families, with the hope placed in the recovery of the wounded. Congratulations to the force of the force.

The knife attack in Mulhouse is the third so far this month in Europe. Beyond the stabbing of a Spanish tourist in Berlin on FridayOn February 15, a 23-year-old Syrian with a residence permit in Austria and who had been radicalized via the Internet, fatally stabbed a 14-year-old teenager and injured five other people while shoutingAllah is Great in the centre of Villach, 350 kilometres south of Vienna.