Senin, 18 Juni 2018

Two injured after woman goes on rampage in French supermarket with boxcutter

Two injured after woman goes on rampage in French supermarket with boxcutter
A member of the French Forensic police walks in the grounds of a supermarket where two people were injured (Picture: AFP/Getty)

A woman has left two people injured after she attacked them with a boxcutter in a French supermarket.

A man was struck in the chest during the late-morning attack in La Seyne-sur-Mer but the wound is not life-threatening, prosecutor Bernard Marchal said.

A woman working at a checkout counter was also wounded, though not as seriously.

Both victims have been taken to hospital.

Reports said that the 24-year-old assailant shouted  'Allahu akbar' (God is greatest), before launching the attack.

'It appears to be an isolated case by a person with known psychological problems,' Marchal said, 'though that doesn't exclude the possibility that she may have been radicalised.'

Two injured after woman goes on rampage in French supermarket with boxcutter
Reports said that the assailant shouted  'Allahu akbar' (God is greatest), before launching the attack (Picture: AFP/Getty)
Two injured after woman goes on rampage in French supermarket with boxcutter
Police later searched her home to determine if she had any links to the Islamic State group (Picture: AFP/Getty)

France has been on high alert following a string of jihadist attacks since early 2015, often by people who have become radicalised or claim to have acted in the name of the Islamic State group.

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The woman, who did not have a police record, was overpowered by others in the supermarket and has been taken into custody.

Police later searched her home to determine if she had any links to the Islamic State group.

'We don't yet know if this is a terrorist act, but in any case it was terrifying,' Marchal said.

More than 240 people have been killed in jihadist attacks since the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris in January 2015.

Last month a knifeman shouting "Allahu akbar" killed one person and wounded four others during a Saturday night attack in a bustling Paris neighbourhood.

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