BERLIN, Dec 4, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - Germany has opened an investigation into the
fatal stabbing this weekend of a German-Filipino tourist in Paris,
prosecutors told AFP on Monday.
A spokeswoman for the federal prosecution service confirmed a report in Der
Spiegel magazine of a probe into the attack, in which the 23-year-old tourist
was killed by a man known to authorities as a radicalised Islamist with
mental health problems.
The German investigation into the attack, which occurred near the Eiffel
Tower on Saturday evening, will run alongside a French probe being handled by
anti-terror prosecutors.
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a French national of Iranian origin born in 1997,
killed the German-Filipino man with two blows from a hammer and four stabs
from a knife.
Two other people were wounded.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told BFM TV there was "clearly a
failure" in the psychiatric care of the attacker, who was suffering from an
"acute mental illness".
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he was
"devastated" by the attack, saying: "Our thoughts are with the wounded, their
families and friends."
His Interior Minister Nancy Faeser had earlier said "the threat of Islamist
terrorism is acute and serious", saying "the war in Gaza" had "worsened the
threat".