[airborne]

"Suspected"Knife Attack

What were the clues that lead the media to call it a "suspected" knife attack?

Knife wounds? Maybe a bloody knife? Perhaps some witnesses who saw a knife?

Political correctness will be the death of us.

[henbane]

What were the clues that lead the media to call it a "suspected" knife attack?

When the French gendarmes saw the guy looking like this, they had a "suspicion" it might be a knife attack--but, hey, let's not be too hasty.

[Eleutheria5]

This isn’t even political correctness. It’s just bad writing, which is almost as egregious.