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| Paris attack latest: Isis claims responsibility multiple stabbing in Opera district | Paris attack latest: Isis claims responsibility multiple stabbing in Opera district |
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| Isis has claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Paris that left at least one victim dead and four others injured. | Isis has claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Paris that left at least one victim dead and four others injured. |
| A statement released through the group's propaganda agency described the attacker as a "soldier of the Islamic State" and claimed the atrocity was in response to its calls to target countries bombing its territories in Syria and Iraq. | A statement released through the group's propaganda agency described the attacker as a "soldier of the Islamic State" and claimed the atrocity was in response to its calls to target countries bombing its territories in Syria and Iraq. |
| Francois Molins, the Paris prosecutor, said the attack was being investigated as terrorism. | |
| He described the victim killed as a "passer-by" and said the four others wounded had also been stabbed. | |
| "At this stage and on the basis on testimonies describing the attacker shouting 'Allahu akbar' while attacking passers-by with a knife, as well as the modus operandi, the counter-terror section of the Paris prosecutor's office is investigating." | |
| Yvan Assioma, the regional secretary of the Police Alliance, said officers who arrived first on the scene were threatened by a "bearded individual". | |
| He said an officer used his taser on the attacker before he was shot by his colleague. | |
| The culprit, who has not been named, died at the scene. | |
| Emmanuel Macron said France had "paid once again the price of blood but will not cede an inch to the enemies of freedom." | |
| More follows… | More follows… |