A 51-year-old travel agent was stabbed to death in her shop in north-west Paris on Thursday.

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Travel agent murdered in her shop

A 51-year-old travel agent was stabbed to death in her shop in north-west Paris on Thursday.

Published: 17 February 2012 09:01 CET

The victim, Elena Ortega, ran the Air Travel agency in the smart 17th arrondissement, reported Le Parisien newspaper.

She was discovered by an intern “in a pool of blood” at around 1.15pm on Thursday afternoon.

The newspaper named the woman as Elena Ortega and said she had been stabbed several times in the neck.

A man seen by witnesses is being hunted by police in connection with the murder. 

No murder weapon has yet been found but traces of blood were found in the nearby Guy Môquet metro station.  

Police are studying closed circuit camera footage to try to identify the suspect.

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Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

An assailant on Thursday wounded two girls aged 6 and 11 in a knife attack close to their school in the east of France and was later arrested, officials said.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:33 CEST
Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

The 11-year-old was stabbed outside the school in the town of Souffelweyersheim, on the outskirts of Strasbourg, while the six-year-old was attacked by the same man nearby.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both girls are being treated in a paediatric hospital. Parents were later in the afternoon allowed to pick up their children, who had been confined to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The attacker, born in 1995, was arrested in the area where he attacked the second girl, the police said. He no longer had the knife in his hand and did not resist arrest, it added.

The attack came as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on violence committed by schoolchildren against their peers. There was no indication so far that the attacker had a link with the school.

“I’m really scared. We’ve been reassured that the children are safe inside, but we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them back,” Sarah, a mother of an eight-year-old pupil, told AFP before the green light was given to collect the children.

“A friend called me. She saw the commotion in front of the school as she passed by. Her reflex was to call me so that I could pick up my son.”

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