A person ha dead This afternoon and several more have been injured in the French city of Mulhousenear the German border, for the attack with a Blank of a man signed for terrorism that has been arrested, according to several media.
The events have occurred before 16.00 local time (15.00 GMT) in the center of the city and among the injured there are two agents in charge of the control of parking and three municipal police, according to ‘Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace’, which has not given indications about the identity of the deceased.
This regional newspaper has indicated that The attack has occurred between Market Square and Lavoisier Streetwhich is where the suspect has been arrested, a man born in 1987 of foreign nationality against whom the expulsion of France had been issued.
For its part, the France Info station, citing the Prosecutor’s Office, has advanced that the author was signed by terrorism; While the BFMTV channel has indicated that, waiting for the motivations of this event to be determined, the Mulhouse Prosecutor’s Office is working together with the National Anti -Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), which would be competent in case it was considered a terrorist act.
Terrorist attack
Finally, French justice is investigating the facts as a terrorist attack. In a statement sent to EFE, the National Anti -Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office indicates that he takes care of the investigation of these facts, in which The author attacked several municipal shouting in Arabic “Allah Akbar” (Allah is the greatest).
The dead man is a person who tried to interpose and three agents were injured. According to some media, one of them was between life and death.
The PNAT said that it has sent one of its magistrates to Mulhouse to direct the operations on the ground and that the investigation has been opened by the Crimes of terrorist murder and attempt at terrorist murders of people of authority.
Several media, citing the prosecutor of Mulhouse, have revealed that the attacker, who is under arrest, He is 37 years old, he is a foreigner signed for terrorism and that an order of expulsion from France was subject.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has announced that he will move to Mulhouse and the president of France, Emmanuel Macronhas described what happened as “terrorist attack.”
In this sense, Macron has underlined his “determination” to eradicate terrorism And at the same time he has transferred a message to the population in which he shows “the solidarity of the nation with the family” of the victim.
Likewise, the president has emphasized “the determination of the government and mine to continue with the work we have been doing for eight years to eradicate terrorism in our territory.”
