A French soldier was stabbed outside a big train station in Paris on Monday and the attacker was arrested, officials said, while the city is under a high security alert 11 days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, reports Yahoo! News.
The attack at the Gare de l'Est station in northern Paris came less than two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in the French capital.
The soldier's life was not in danger, interior minister Gérald Darmanin said on social media platform X, while a police source told AFP he had suffered a knife wound "between the shoulder blades".
The 40-year-old suspect was arrested by other soldiers on patrol while the wounded man was taken to hospital "conscious", the source said.
A security perimeter was erected on one side of the station in the wake of the stabbing, an AFP journalist said, with police still present around midnight some two hours after the incident.