PARIS: A French soldier patrolling a business area of western Paris was stabbed in the neck yesterday by a man who quickly fled the scene and was still being sought, a police source said.
The soldier, patrolling as part of France’s Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan, was injured in the stabbing around 1800pm but would survive, the source said.
French daily Le Parisien cited police sources as saying the suspected attacker was a bearded man of North African origin about 30 years old, and was wearing an Arab-style garment under his jacket.
President Francois Hollande said there was “at this stage” no apparent link between a knife attack on a soldier in Paris and the murder of a soldier in London this week.
AFP
