| 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 effet 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. He has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.[1]