{"id":361008,"date":"2018-05-13T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/french-police-identify-knife-wielding-killer-in-suspected-paris-terror-attack\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T14:16:50","slug":"french-police-identify-knife-wielding-killer-in-suspected-paris-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/french-police-identify-knife-wielding-killer-in-suspected-paris-terror-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"French Police Identify Knife-Wielding Killer in Suspected Paris Terror Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>French investigators have identified the knifeman who killed one and wounded four others in a suspected terror attack in the heart of Paris. Judicial sources said the attacker, a French national, was born in Chechnya in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The same source said the man&#8217;s parents have been taken into custody for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>An assailant shouting \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d was shot dead by police in\u00a0central Paris\u00a0late Saturday, minutes after he attacked people near the city\u2019s main opera house a popular neighbourhood full of bars, restaurants and party-goers every weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has not been named, but sources close to the inquiry say the Frenchman was on an anti-terror watchlist of suspected extremists, although he did not have a criminal record.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wyb_XkKfRvk\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described the scenes as Parisians realised another potential terror attack was underway in a country that has already seen over 245 people killed in just three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was taking orders and I saw a young woman trying to get into the restaurant,\u201d Jonathan, a waiter at a Korean restaurant, told AFP. The woman was bleeding and the attacker appeared behind her. He said a young man tried to fend off the assailant who then fled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attacker entered a shopping street, I saw him with a knife in his hand,\u201d he said. \u201cHe looked crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milan, 19, said he saw \u201cseveral people in distress\u201d including a woman with wounds to her neck and leg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFiremen were giving her first aid. I heard two, three shots and a policeman told me&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/french-police-identify-knife-wielding-killer-in-suspected-paris-terror-attack\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French investigators have identified the knifeman who killed one and wounded four others in a suspected terror attack in the heart of Paris. Judicial sources said the attacker, a French national, was born in Chechnya in 1997. The same source said the man&#8217;s parents have been taken into custody for questioning. An assailant shouting \u201cAllahu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}