Woman shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ wounds two in French supermarket rampage
A WOMAN went on a stabbing rampage shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) in a French supermarket.
By SIMON OSBORNE
Express.co.uk
Mon, Jun 18, 2018
French radio station Europe 1 and the Nice-Matin and Le Monde newspapers quoted Toulon prosecutor Bernard Marchal who said police had launched an investigation after two people were stabbed and injured in an attack that may have been motivated by Islamic fundamentalism.
The woman, who was dressed in black and wearing a veil attacked a female employee and a male customer with a box-cutter at the Leclerc supermarket in the southern French town of La Seyne-sur-Mer near Toulon.
The customer was taken to hospital a non life-threatening chest injury while the cashier suffered a minor eye injury.
Witnesses said she shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as she launched her attack, which they say appeared to start as a dispute between the woman and other customers. It escalated when the woman produced a knife.
Police are still trying to work out if the woman, who has a history of psychiatric problems, had planned the attack or acted on the spur of the moment.
Mr Marchal said: “This appears to be an isolated incident caused by a person with proven psychiatric troubles. But we can’t rule out the possibility that she had become radicalised.”
He said police from Toulon had raided the woman’s home in an attempt to discover whether she had links with Islamic State (ISIS).
The prosecutor said: “We don’t know whether this incident was a terrorist attack but it is terrifying because this man who was going about his business was attacked at a supermarket checkout till.”
The suspect, a French national born in 1994, has previous convictions for assault but is not among the 10,000 Islamic suspects on intelligence agency watchlists.
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