The local prosecutor said one person died and two police officers were seriously injured in a knife attack in East France on Saturday.
Prosecutor Nicolas Hetez told AFP that three more officers were mildly injured, who were in an attack in the city city by 37 -year -old suspect, on a terrorist prevention sabchalist.
A list called FSPRT, “terrorist” compiles data from various authorities with the aim of preventing bigotry. It was launched in 2015 after a deadly attacks on Satire magazine Charlie Hebdo’s offices and a Jewish Supermarket.
The suspect attacked local police officers at the Mulhouse on Saturday afternoon, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Greatest”), in a statement by PNAT, a unit of French National Actorr Prosecutors.
The office of the prosecutor said that an attempt was made to intervene and help the police.
One of the seriously injured police officers hurt the carotid artery, and the other thoracic, Hetez said.
Internal Minister Bruno Retillu was expected to travel to the scene of the attack later on Saturday.
The police set up a security parameter after the attack, which took place some time before 4 pm local time during the protest in support of Congo.
According to union sources, under the suspect, judicial supervision and house arrest, and under a removal order from France.
Mulhouse Mayor Michelle Lutz said on Facebook, “Horror has taken away our city.” The incident was investigated by leg as a terrorist attack, he said, but “it should be clearly confirmed by the judiciary.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that the deadly knife attack “Islamist terrorism”, after the office of an anti -terrorism prosecutor, confirmed that it was investigating the case.
Macron told reporters on the occasion of the annual French farm show, “It is without any doubt for the work of Islamist terrorism, saying that internal ministers were on their way to the Mulhouse.
The office of the prosecutor said that the suspect has been arrested.
Some information in this report is Reuters.