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US tourists injured in random acid attack in French city

Two young female American tourists were sprayed with hydrochloric acid in the French city of Marseille on Sunday by a woman who appeared to have psychological problems, a police source said.

Published: 18 September 2017 10:16 CEST
US tourists injured in random acid attack in French city
Saint-Charles train station where the attack took place. AFP
The attack occurred inside the Mediterranean port city's Saint-Charles train station at around 9.00 am.
 
The woman sprayed the tourists in the eyes, the source said, adding that she targeted the people closest to her and that the incident “was not of a terrorist nature”.
   
The two injured tourists, both aged around 20, were travelling in a group of four. They were not targeted because of their nationality, the source added.
   
One of the two women was suffering from partial loss of vision. Both were admitted to hospital but were discharged in the afternoon.
   
The attacker was born in 1976 and was known to police for theft.
   
The police source said she had justified her actions by saying she herself had been the victim of an acid attack when she was younger.

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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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