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Revision as of 19:11, 5 October 2019
| Paris police headquarters stabbing | |
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 Map of Île de la Cité | |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48°51′14.4″N 2°20′48.8″E / 48.854000°N 2.346889°E |
| Date | 3 October 2019 c. 1:00 p.m.[1] |
| Target | Police employees |
Attack type | Mass stabbing |
| Weapons | Ceramic knife[2] |
| Deaths | 5 (including the attacker) |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Mickaël Harpon |
During the early afternoon of 3 October 2019, a police employee stabbed five colleagues at the Prefecture of Police on the Île de la Cité in central Paris, killing three male police officers and one female member of the support staff as well as seriously injuring another woman.[3][4][5] The three men were stabbed in the office area and the two women on a stairway.[6][7] Police officers opened fire and killed the attacker.[4][8] The attack came a day after police went on strike across France over increasing violence towards officers.[9]
Following the incident, the police headquarters building was visited by President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.[5] The Île de la Cité was placed under a lockdown and the Cité station of the Paris Métro, located on the island, was closed to passengers.[8]
Attacker
The attacker was reported as being 45-year-old Mickaël Harpon, an IT specialist who did administrative work at the station for the last 16 years and held a military secrecy security clearance,[4][8] giving him access to restricted information like the watchlist of terror suspects, addresses of police officers and data on French citizens and their families who had returned after they fought in the Syrian Civil War.[10] He was born in Fort-de-France in the Caribbean overseas department of Martinique in 1974,[5] and had been deaf since childhood.[11] The murder weapon was a ceramic knife of a type undetectable by metal scanners.[12]
Investigation
Initial reports suggested a workplace dispute was the motive. The day after the attack, a counter-terrorism investigation was opened,[7] looking into whether the attacker was a radicalized Islamist and the possibility of having been in contact with or received support from any terrorist groups.[13][14] According to BFM TV, he converted to Islam in 2008.[15] Colleagues had reported Harpon in 2015 for voicing support for the attack on Charlie Hebdo, which did not lead to an investigation.[10]
The counter-terrorism head said that the attacker had radical and extremist religious views, that started when he justified some violent acts with an Islamist background, stopped wearing Western clothes and to not talking to other women excluding those of his family. Ties between Harpon and Salafist men were also confirmed.[16][17]
Before starting the attack, Harpon talked with his wife, and they exchanged a total of 33 messages. Among those, Harpon wrote "Allah Akhbar" and "Follow the Prophet and the Quran".[18]
References
- ^ "Employee kills four with knife at Paris police HQ". BBC News. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "EN DIRECT – Attaque à la préfecture de police de Paris : quatre personnes tuées, l'assaillant abattu". FIGARO (in French). Oct 3, 2019. Retrieved Oct 3, 2019.
- ^ Bisserbe, Noemie. "Four Officers Killed by Employee at Paris Police Headquarters". WSJ. Retrieved Oct 3, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Paris police attack: Four killed by knife-wielding employee". BBC News. 3 October 2019.
- ^ a b c "Attaque dans la Préfecture de police de Paris : quatre personnes et l'assaillant sont morts" (in French). Le Monde. 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Four people killed in knife rampage at Paris police HQ". The Independent. 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
- ^ a b "Terror inquiry launched into Paris police killings". BBC. 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
- ^ a b c "Paris stabbing: Four people killed in knife rampage at police HQ". Independent. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Paris police attack: Four killed by knife-wielding employee". BBC News. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ a b Wiegel, Michaela (2019-10-05). "Vertuschung auf höchsten Befehl". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-05.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "Paris knifeman who fatally stabbed four people was 'trusted' deaf IT worker". Metro. 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
- ^ "Attaque au couteau à la préfecture de police de Paris : ce que l'on sait". Le Figaro (in French). 3 October 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
Muni d'un couteau de cuisine en céramique, indétectable aux portiques de sécurité[needs translation]
- ^ "Attaque de Paris : l'enquête privilégie la piste terroriste". www.lefigaro.fr (in French). 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Breeden, Aurelien (2019-10-04). "Terrorism Motive Eyed in Paris Police Stabbing Attack". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
- ^ « Ce n'est pas la personne que je connaissais. » L'incompréhension d'un ami de Michaël Harpon qui le côtoyait depuis 5 ans (in French), BFMTV, retrieved 2019-10-05
- ^ Paris police killings: Attacker showed signs of 'radicalisation'
- ^ "EN DIRECT - Attaque à la préfecture de police : "Un périple meurtrier de sept minutes"". LCI (in French). Retrieved 2019-10-05.
- ^ Les derniers sms de Michael Harpon