Attack in Paris on May 12, 2018

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Police cordon off after the attack

In the attack in Paris on May 12, 2018 , an Islamist attacker attacked several people with a knife. One person was killed and four others injured.

Sequence of events

The assassin Khamzat Azimov stabbed several passers-by around 9:00 pm on the corner of Rue Monsigny and Rue Saint-Augustin in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris , near the Opera , while he chanted " Allahu Akbar ". One person died and four others were injured. When the police arrived, Azimov attacked them too and was shot.

Victim

The victim was a 29-year-old man. According to the French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb , the other four injured were already out of danger again on May 13.

Perpetrator

Khamzat Azimov was born in Chechnya in 1997 and came to France as a refugee with his family in the early 2000s . After his mother was naturalized, Azimov received French citizenship in 2010. The DGSI listed Azimov as an Islamist threat from 2016 after acquaintances of his tried to emigrate to take part in the civil war in Syria . Azimov had graduated from high school in Strasbourg and had recently come to the capital region with his parents.

Reactions

The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the crime. The day after the attack, a video posted on the Internet by the IS news channel Amaq appeared on social networks, which is said to show Azimov. In the video, a young man with a half-covered face swears allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in French, justifies his act with French air strikes on Muslims and calls on fellow believers in Europe to carry out further attacks.

French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the attack as an act of a “terrorist” and praised the intervention of the police “who neutralized the terrorist”. In view of previous Islamist attacks , Macron stated: "France has again had to pay a blood price." The North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Reul called for a better exchange of information between the intelligence services.

Web links

Commons : 2018 Paris knife attack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lizzie Dearden: Paris attacker 'shouting Allahu akbar' shot dead by police after stabbing victims in street. In: Independent. May 12, 2018, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Knife stabbers from Paris were known to the police . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Qui est Khamzat Azimov, l'auteur de l'attentat au couteau qui a fait un mort à Paris? (French) . In: Le Monde , May 13, 2018. 
  4. ↑ a b One dead and four injured: Suspected Islamist attacks people in Paris . Zeit Online, May 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Man stabs passers-by indiscriminately - IS terrorist militia is committed. In: world. May 13, 2018, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Germany: NRW interior minister calls for better information exchange after the attack in Paris. (No longer available online.) In: zeit.de. Die Zeit , May 14, 2018, archived from the original on May 15, 2018 ; accessed on May 15, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '8.2 "  N , 2 ° 20' 2.9"  E