An Algerian man who on Monday attacked a police patrol in the French city of Cannes with a knife and who said he was acting on behalf of the prophet Muhammad was shot dead by the agents and is "between life and death," the official said. French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
The 37-year-old aggressor is called Lakhdar B *, and he arrived in France in 2016. The Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office has not considered that the investigation is within its competence, Darmanin explained in statements to the press outside the police station in Cannes where the events took place.
According to several witnesses, the criminal gave several shouts of the type "In the name of the prophet!" For years, this type of screaming has been a kind of "war cry" (Islamic) of individuals of the Muslim religion, protagonists of actions that oscillate between crapulous murder and the Islamic terrorist attack.
For years, France has been the victim of successive waves of street violence, on the outskirts of Paris and other large cities, in Marseille (north), the Côte d'Azur and some 750 ghettos of illegal immigrants officially classified as dangerous or very dangerous.
