Posted on 05/16/2005 5:41:50 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
PARIS (Reuters) - A cook at a Paris children's hospital was killed in a sword attack Saturday evening by a man he met on the Internet, police sources said Sunday.
The fatal attack took place inside the Necker hospital, after a disagreement between the 34 year-old victim, who has not yet been named, and his attacker.
"He stabbed him. The security team and one of his colleagues tried to intervene, but were unable to do anything," Isabelle Lesage, director of the hospital, told Reuters.
The attack was carried out with a short Japanese sword, known as a "katana," a police source said.
"The cook suffered one or more sword blows, particularly in the area of the carotid (artery), which caused a quick death," a police spokesman said.
A police source said the attacker, a male in his 50s, then went to a police station with the weapon, and told police he had just killed someone.
Police said he had been examined by psychiatrists but appeared to be of sound mind.
Swords don't kill people...
Police said he had been examined by psychiatrists but appeared to be of sound mind.
That must have been one really lousy French cook. Or else the killer was one really hard-core food critic.
Not likely.
A katana is a long sword, by just about any definition. Its short companion sword is called a wazikashi.
I believe the perp was one of several musketeers still furious after all these years about being let go when the French king was deposed. I understand that the French government has confiscated all swords not owned by the government but, you know the old saying, "When swords are outlawed, only outlaws will have swords."
I hate when a quickening is interrupted.
What they didn't tell you about gun control....
Blade locks NOW!
[A cook at a Paris children's hospital was killed in a sword attack Saturday evening by a man he met on the Internet]
Did the sword pop out of the screen or...what?
:^)
There can be only one!
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