| 2023 Paris attack | |
| Location: | near Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France |
| Time: | Just before 21:00 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Fatalities: | 1 |
| Injuries: | 2 |
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| Weapons: | Knife and hammer |
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| Motive: | Islamic extremism |
| Accused: | Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab |
On 2 December 2023, a French man of Iranian origin carried out a knife and hammer attack against three people near Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France, killing one of them.[1]
On Quai de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, just before 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) on 2 December 2023, a man attacked three people using a knife and hammer as he allegedly shouted "Allahu Akbar".[1] One victim was killed.[1]
Police tasered the suspect near the scene[2] and arrested him for premeditated murder and terrorist-motivated attempted murder.[1] President Emmanuel Macron described it as a terrorist attack.[1]
The fatally attacked victim was a young man who was a tourist from the Philippines, who had immigrated to Germany.[1] He was a nurse who was a naturalised German citizen.[1] The surviving victims are a Frenchman aged around 60 and a 66-year-old British tourist.[1] [2]
The suspect is Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoabis, a 26-year-old man who has mental health problems.[1] [2] He was born in France in 1997 to Iranian parents who fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[1] [2] [3] He acquired French nationality on 20 March 2002, through the collective effort of his parents' naturalization.[4] [5] His birth first name was Iman, but it was changed in 2003. He was released from prison in 2020 after serving four years for planning an attack. Prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said the suspect had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.[1]