A man, suspected of having stabbed several people on Saturday February 3, in the morning, at Gare de Lyon in Paris, was arrested, the Police Prefecture announced to Agence France-Presse (AFP), without being able to specify at this stage the motivations of the attacker.
According to a provisional report from the prefecture, the attack, which took place around 8 a.m., left one seriously injured, whose prognosis is not life-threatening, and two lightly injured. The injured people “were taken care of by the emergency services. Thank you to those who controlled the perpetrator of this unbearable act,” responded Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
“The suspect did not shout during his action,” added a police source. “He presented the police with an Italian driving license,” added the same source. The man, of Malian nationality, “was first overpowered by passers-by” before the intervention of Suge, the SNCF railway police, who then handed him over to the police, detailed the police source.
“There is an intervention by the police and emergency services currently in halls 1 and 3, which makes them temporarily inaccessible,” SNCF reported on X. “Traffic is slowed down between Paris Gare de Lyon and Montargis and between Paris Gare de Lyon and Montereau,” she also announced, referring to “an act of malicious intent.”