This Sunday, November 17, a man with a knife was arrested near the Champs-Élysées, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The individual was arrested “without incident,” a police source told CNEWS.
The events occurred around 9:45 p.m. Passers-by on Avenue Franklin-Roosevelt, near the Champs-Élysées (8th arrondissement of Paris) had a fright this Sunday, November 17 when they noticed the presence of a man walking around with a kitchen knife in the middle of the street , CNEWS learned from a police source.
The emergency call center (PFAU) was quickly alerted to the suspicious actions of the individual and a police patrol was sent to the scene.
According to our information, the man was arrested without incident by the police still in the 8th arrondissement.
According to Le Parisien, during the searches, a kitchen knife was found in the pocket of the individual's down jacket. Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident.
Contacted by us, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed the facts, indicating that the man is “homeless, born in Morocco in 1991.” “He is known in the neighborhood to regularly attack the same store,” explained the public prosecutor.
