Terror attack in France.
French authorities sat a 20-year-old French citizen born in Chechnya, Khamzat Azimov, stabbed several people in a random attack on a Paris street in the Opera district Saturday.
#France l’#EI diffuse la vidéo d’allégeance de l’asssaillant de l’#Opéra et dans laquelle il explique son geste et exhorte à la Hijra et à plus d’attaques en réponse à la coalition anti-EI pic.twitter.com/NpbzPy6iUO
— Wassim Nasr (@SimNasr) May 13, 2018
The Islamic State’s news agency Amaq released a video that purports to show Azimov pledged allegiance to the terrorist group, it was reported Sunday.
Saturday French police reported an “… assault of 5 people in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris by an individual armed with a knife: One victim has died, two are seriously wounded and two are injured slightly. The assailant passed away.”
CBS News reported Sunday that French authorities said the suspect was “born in Chechnya and had been on police radar for radicalism, and his parents have been detained for questioning.” Azimov had been on a database of individuals believed to be linked to, or influenced by, extremism but the man did not have a criminal history, it was reported.
A witness said, “Everyone saw the assailant with a knife full of…