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Man with fire extinguisher attacks Hollande HQ

A man has been arrested after throwing a fire extinguisher at new president Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party headquarters in Paris, after a dispute with his local council.

Published: 19 June 2012 11:45 CEST
Man with fire extinguisher attacks Hollande HQ
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The 41-year-old man arrived at the Socialist Party HQ, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at 5am yesterday and attempted to erect a banner.

On the banner the man reportedly wrote his name, contact details, and information about an ongoing situation with his local town hall.

The guardsmen at the premises quickly spotted the man and raised the alarm.

Police later tracked down the 41-year-old through the details he had written on his banner, and arrested him in his hotel room in the town of Malakoff, just south of Paris, where they also found another fire extinguisher full of ethanol.

A source told daily newspaper Le Parisien: “The man seemed to have a dispute with his local council. He thought they were treating him badly and he wanted to make it known.”

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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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