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2023 Paris attack
The Pont de Bir-Hakeim in 2018.
Location	near Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France
Date	2 December 2023; 13 months ago (2023-12-02) Just before 21:00 (CET (UTC+01:00))
Weapons	Knife and hammer
Deaths	1
Injured	2
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.

Attack

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". One victim was killed.

Reaction

Police tasered the suspect near the scene and arrested him for premeditated murder and terrorist-motivated attempted murder. President Emmanuel Macron described it as a terrorist attack.

Victims

The fatally attacked victim was a young man who was a tourist from the Philippines, who had immigrated to Germany. He was a nurse who was a naturalised German citizen. The surviving victims are a Frenchman aged around 60 and a 66-year-old British tourist.

Suspect

The suspect is Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoabis, a 26-year-old man who has mental health problems. He was born in France in 1997 to Iranian parents who fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He acquired French nationality on 20 March 2002, through the collective effort of his parents' naturalization. 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.

References

1. ^ "Paris attack near Eiffel Tower leaves one dead and two injured". Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
2. ^ Chris Liakos; Heather Chen; Mitchell McCluskey (3 December 2023). "One dead, two injured in Paris knife and hammer attack near Eiffel Tower". CNN. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
3. "Attaque à Paris : trois jours après, la mère du terroriste dit renier son fils". Le Figaro (in French). 5 December 2023. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
4. "JORF n° 0069 du 22 mars 2002 - Légifrance" (PDF). legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). p. 5141. Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
5. ^ "Attaque à Paris : le terroriste Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab se prénommait Iman jusqu'en 2003". Le Figaro (in French). 3 December 2023. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

External links

• "Le Sénat adopte un texte permettant la rétention de sûreté des terroristes". Le Monde.fr (in French). 31 January 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
• "Attentats : « La radicalisation religieuse est-elle vraiment religieuse ? »". La Croix (in French). 5 January 2024. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 12 February 2024.

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