One person was killed and four were injured in a knife attack in central Paris on Saturday, the latest assault in France that authorities suspect is linked to the Islamist group Isis.
Witnesses said the assailant shouted “Allahu akbar” before stabbing passers-by at around 9pm local time, in a small street between the old Opera house and the Louvre museum, a typically busy and tourist-heavy neighbourhood, according to Paris prosecutor François Molins. Police shot the attacker dead. Mr Molins said the assault was being treated as terrorism.
“France is once again paying the price of blood but will not give in once inch to the enemies of freedom,” President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter.