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Added on the 08/09/2018 16:26:00 - Copyright : Euronews EN
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
A number of people lay flowers at a makeshift altar in the play area on the Esplanade du Paquier in Annecy, the day after a knife attack on young children, two of whom are still in life-threatening condition. IMAGES
Forensic police officers in the Paquier park in Annecy, on the banks of the lake, where a man armed with a knife injured six people, including four very young children, terrorising a playground before being arrested by the police. IMAGES
MPs and members of the government observe a minute's silence at the National Assembly following a knife attack in Annecy, in south-east France, in which five people, including four children, were injured. IMAGES
Spain has opened a terror probe after a man wielding a bladed weapon stormed a church in the southern town of Algeciras, killing one and wounding several others, legal sources told AFP. Prosecutors say the probe will be led by a judge from the Audiencia Nacional, Spain's top criminal court. IMAGES
Addressing a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Britain will "not be cowed by terrorism" after a homemade bomb destroyed a taxi outside a hospital in Liverpool, killing a passenger. SOUNDBITE