BREAKING: French soldier on duty stabbed by man ‘of North African origin’ in Paris, manhunt ongoing

RT
May 25, 2013

A French soldier patrolling a business area of western Paris was stabbed in the neck on Saturday by a man who quickly fled the scene and was still being sought, a police source said.

The soldier, patrolling as part of France’s Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan, was injured in the stabbing around 1800 p.m. but would survive, the source said.

French daily Le Parisien cited police sources as saying the suspected attacker was a bearded man of North African origin about 30 years old, and was wearing an Arab-style garment under his jacket.

The assault comes just days after Europe was shocked by the brutal murder of British soldier, Lee Rigby, who was beheaded in Woolwich, South East London on May 22.

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