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28 May 2013
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At 5:54 pm on Saturday, a lone assailant stabbed a uniformed French soldier in the throat at La D\u00c3\u00a9fense, near Paris, only three days after the gruesome murder by machete of an off duty British soldier by two jihadists in London.<\/p>\n

In Paris, the assault took place in broad daylight and in full view of the public. The assailant ran off into a crowd of shoppers and has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n

The assault took place in the business quarter of La D\u00c3\u00a9fense in a space known as La Salle d<\/em>\u2019<\/em>\u00c3\u00a9change<\/em> which leads from the shopping area to the subway station, regularly patrolled by three-man joint police\/army units as part of the emergency anti-terrorist operation known as Vigipirate. This plan was activated out of fear of terrorist retaliation against France\u2019s neo-colonial military interventions in Mali, Syria and Libya.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old soldier, C\u00c3\u00a9dric Cordier, walking just behind his two colleagues, was attacked from behind with a blade and received a superficial wound close to his carotid artery\u2013which, had it been severed, would have been fatal. Cordier was able to leave hospital on Monday.<\/p>\n

Though the space is full of surveillance cameras, there are still conflicting descriptions of the apparently lone assailant. Le Parisien<\/em> spoke of \u201ca man of North African appearance in his thirties, with a beard and wearing a jackets and a djellab<\/em> a<\/em> [Muslim African robe]\u201d. These details were denied by the Le Journal du dimanche<\/em>, however.<\/p>\n

Le Figaro<\/em> reports: \u201cQuestioned by Reuters, the prefect [i.e., top police chief] of the Hauts-de-Seine department, Pierre-Andre Peyvel, refused to deny or confirm this information. The UNSA police union claimed that the aggressor was a tall, athletic man.<\/p>\n

The Monday morning edition of Le Parisien-Aujourd<\/em>\u2019<\/em>hui en France<\/em> reported the existence of a video showing the supposed aggressor wearing a small hat and in black clothing praying minutes before the attack. The police also reportedly found a plastic bag near the scene containing a bottle and a knife.<\/p>\n

Predictably, the unpopular Socialist Party (PS) government of President Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Hollande is trying to seize upon the horrible killing in London and the assault in Paris to boost police powers and stoke a right-wing, law-and-order atmosphere. Hollande\u2019s poll ratings are at an historic low of 23 percent, due to the deep unpopularity of his austerity measures and overseas wars.<\/p>\n

This took place even though, as of this writing, there is no clear evidence of a political motive behind the stabbing at La D\u00c3\u00a9fense.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Manuel Valls stated on Monday morning that Criminal Brigade investigators had some \u201cserious clues\u201d. Speaking on France 5<\/em> TV, Valls said that \u201csome elements\u201d suggested that the attack was a terrorist act, though he called for \u201cprudence as regards any lumping together or comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who visited the soldier in hospital, asserted that \u201cthey wanted to kill him because he was a soldier,\u201d stressing his determination to carry out together with Valls \u201can implacable struggle against terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n


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