Unknown, shouting “Allah Akbar” made on Friday, February 3, the attack on the military guarding the entrance to the underground gallery between the Louvre Museum and the adjacent shopping center. The attack was attacked with bladed weapons. One of the soldiers seriously wounded.
During the attack, which occurred at 10 a.m., unknown shouted against four police officers of the threat and shouted “Allah Akbar”. Offensive weapon was a large size knife (“machete”, the description of eyewitnesses). Perhaps he had additional weapons.
According to the Prime Minister of France Bernard Kazneva, it “most likely” is about “the attack”. One of the soldiers managed to fire at the attacker, using, according to a source in the French armed forces, quoted by AFP, “techniques of self-defense.” According to the Prefecture of Paris, the assailant seriously wounded and detained. Besides him, detained and another man, who drew their attention to “suspicious behavior”.
The investigation is entrusted to Department on fight against terrorism of the police and the General Directorate for internal security (DGSI). A team of bomb squad checked the contents of the two backpacks the attacker, not finding in them explosives. The Louvre and its underground galleries were all morning surrounded by police, traffic in the quarter terminated, the closest metro stations are closed. About 250 people were in the Museum during the attack, had been closed in protected areas of the Louvre, and then released in small groups.
Level anti-terrorist alert in Paris raised to the maximum. Currently in operation Sentinelle (Sentry) in the capital, there are 3 thousand 500 military and 7 thousand as a whole in France.
