The knife attack is the second case in four months of a violent assault by someone from within France’s security services
Gendarmes control the access to the gendarmerie headquarters of Dieuze, in eastern France, on Feb. 3, 2020.A man who attacked officers with a knife in a French police barracks was a trainee soldier, officials said, in the second case in four months of a violent assault by someone from within France’s security services.
An intelligence source named the suspect as 19-year-old Matthias R and said police had searched his military lodging in Dieuze and raided his home in central France but found no obvious links to Islamist militant networks.Shortly before the attack, a call was placed to the police from someone saying he was in the armed forces and was preparing an attack in Dieuze in the name of Islamic State, French media cited local prosecutors as saying.
French newspaper Le Parisien, quoting sources close to the investigation, said investigators suspect he might have been suicidal. In October last year, Mickael Harpon, an information technology assistant at police headquarters in central Paris, went on a knife rampage inside the building, killing four people before being shot dead.
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