2018 Paris knife attack
On 12 May 2018, a 20-year-old Chechnya-born French citizen, armed with a knife, killed one pedestrian and injured four others near the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris, France, before being fatally shot by police. The stabbings were in the area of Rue Saint-Augustin and Passage Choiseul. French President Emmanuel Macron said France had "paid once again the price of blood but will not cede an inch to the enemies of freedom." The suspect, identified as Khamzat Azimov, had been on a counter-terrorism watchlist since 2016. Amaq News Agency posted a video of a hooded person pledging allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, claimed to be the attacker. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism.
| 2018 Paris knife attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
2018 Paris knife attack (Paris) | |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48.8683°N 2.335956°E |
| Date | 12 May 2018 8:47 p.m. CET |
| Target | pedestrians |
Attack type | Stabbing |
| Weapons | Knives |
| Deaths | 2 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 4 |
| Perpetrator | Khamzat Azimov |
| Motive | Islamic extremism |