The head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gerald Darmanin, announced on social networks X (formerly Twitter) reported that police detained a man with a knife who was about to attack a man near a synagogue in the southern commune of Cannes.
“In Cannes, criminal police detained a very dangerous, knife-wielding man who wanted to attack another person,” he wrote.
According to the minister, thanks to law enforcement, “the worst was averted.”
By TV channel BFMTV According to police sources, the man was waiting for his victim near the synagogue. When he took a knife from his belt and tried to attack passersby, the surrounding police intervened. The attacker tried to flee the scene but was detained.
Last week it was learned that there was a man with a knife was attacked To a school in the city of Arras in northern France.
It was previously reported that there was a school child in France. wounded The teacher held a knife to his throat.