A knife-wielding madman said he was being “commanded” by Allah when he cut down three women on the streets of Paris Monday, including a pregnant expectant mother in a shocking caught-on-camera attack.
The horrifying assault unfolded Monday in the north of Paris at Porte de Clichy, near the Paris Court.
The man – seen in social media video with long, dark hair and wearing a cream-colored tracksuit – stalked the sidewalk clutching a pair of butcher knives.
In the video, a man screams warnings to passersby to avoid the armed lunatic.
He attacked three women, aged 19, 24 and 36 before good Samaritans confronted and took him down, putting an end to the rampage.
Two of them were seriously wounded but are expected to survive, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters.
Another video shows the attacker lying on the ground surrounded by bystanders with the knives strewn on a nearby pedestrian crossing.
“It is Allah who commanded me,” the man lying on the ground declared.
Nunez hailed the off-duty police officer who detained him.
“It was a courageous act,” he said.
The motive of the attack remains unknown, Nunez said, adding police could not verify the identity of the attacker, whose declarations were “incoherent” while he was being arrested.
The French national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said it was weighing whether to open an investigation.
It’s the second apparent Islamist terror attack in a European capital in a matter of days. In Berlin, an ISIS-inspired madman killed one person and injured 29 others when he rammed a crowd at Pride Fest with a van. He was killed in a shootout with cops.
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