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| 2 injured as woman with box cutter attacks people in French store, reportedly shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ | |
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| A woman reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” has attacked and injured two people at a supermarket in La Seyne-sur-Mer, southeastern France. | A woman reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” has attacked and injured two people at a supermarket in La Seyne-sur-Mer, southeastern France. |
| She was detained after assaulting an employee and a customer with a cutter knife at a store in the Var department on Sunday, BFM TV reports, citing a local prosecutor. | She was detained after assaulting an employee and a customer with a cutter knife at a store in the Var department on Sunday, BFM TV reports, citing a local prosecutor. |
| It is said that the customer was stabbed in the chest, while the employee was injured in the eye. The attacker, dressed in black and wearing a veil, was stopped by the supermarket staff, BFM TV reports. | |
| The woman shouted “Allahu Akbar” at the moment of the attack, according to an AFP reporter who spoke with witnesses. Howeverm the owman could have a mental disorder, the prosecutor noted. Still, police have not ruled out the possibility that the woman had been radicalized. | |
| The perpetrator was reportedly born in France in 1994, and was not previously known to the intelligence services. Law enforcement is currently searching her house, checking whether she had links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). | |
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