Three days after a British soldier was hacked to death on a London street in broad daylight, Paris has been shaken by a similar attack. According to the French daily le Parisien, a bearded man allegedly from North African origin stabbed a French soldier in the throat.
The perpetrator, believed to be 30-years old, carried his attack while the French soldier was on patrol in the business area of La Defense as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan.
In spite of the seriousness of the attack, French police said that the soldiers’ life was out of danger.
The assailant fled the scene immediately after the attack.