“French soldier stabbed in Paris”
By Harriet Alexander, and Peter Allen in Paris
6:31PM BST 25 May 2013
SNIPPET: “The attack was being treated as a “terrorist incident”, said a source at the Paris prosecutors office.
“The anti-terrorist branch of the prosecutors office is dealing with the matter,” the source added.”
SNIPPET: “The 25-year-old, patrolling as part of France’s Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan, was injured in the stabbing around 6pm but would survive, the source said. He was reported to be from France’s Fourth Cavalry regiment, based in Gap in the southern Alps.”
SNIPPET: “He was attacked in the Parisian business district of La Defense, inside the train station.
French daily Le Parisien cited police sources as saying the suspected attacker was a bearded man of North African origin about 30 years old, and was wearing an Arab-style garment under his jacket.
He ran away following the attack and has not yet been detained.”
SNIPPET: “France is on high alert for attacks by Islamist militants following its military intervention in Mali in January, which prompted threats against French interests from AQIM, the North African wing of al Qaeda.
On Friday a jihadist group based in West Africa claimed responsability for attacks on a French uranium mine in Niger, which it said was in response to France’s military action in the region.”
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Previously...
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/05/mujao_suicide_bomber.php
“MUJAO suicide bombers hit uranium mine, barracks in Niger”
By BILL ROGGIO
May 23, 2013
“French soldier stabbed may be linked to brutal Woolwich attack”
NEWS LIMITED NETWORK, AFP MAY 26, 2013 10:57AM
SNIPPET: “The soldier, who was on a group patrol as part of France’s Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance scheme that sees troops deployed at high-profile tourist, business and transport sites across the capital, was attacked from behind, prosecutor Robert Gelli told Europe 1 radio, The Independent reported.
He was stabbed in the throat with a Stanley knife in the western La Defense district, on the outskirts of Paris.”