FRANCE: Mass knife jihad attack by “Allahu Akbar” screaming Muslim terrorist

A market in France’s eastern city of Mulhouse turned into a bloodbath this afternoon when a 37-year-old Algerian Muslim terrorist went on a rampage, stabbing several police officers, killing one and leaving several more injured.

MIRROR UK A suspected Islamic terrorist who was due to be deported from France killed a man and wounded at least four police officers during a savage knife attack in a packed market today.

The arrested man, who also remained unidentified publicly, was on a file containing suspects said to have been ‘radicalised as terrorists,’ said Mr Heitz. He was due to be deported, having been convicted in the past of ‘showing sympathy for terrorism’.

The 37-year-old Algerian shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’  as the bloodbath unfolded in Mulhouse, in the east of the country, on Saturday afternoon. Soon afterwards, President Emmanuel Macron said: ‘There is no doubt that this was an Islamic terrorist attack’. He expressed ‘the solidarity of the nation’ with those attacked, and their families.

The attacker was unhurt, and later arrested by other officers, before being taken to a secure police station, where he remained on Saturday evening. The dead man was later identified as a 69-year-old from Portugal. He was a ‘passer-by’ in the market, and ‘the first to be attacked,’ said an investigating source. Earlier claims that he was a plain clothes police officer were discounted.

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office announced the opening of an investigation for ‘murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise’. Nicolas Heitz, the Mulhouse prosecutor, said the so-far unidentified man who died had been stabbed in the throat, as had a municipal police officer who was in intensive care.

The prime minister received an immediate reply from a Municipal Police account which read: ‘Mr. Prime Minister Bayrou, it is high time to move from words to actions. Our colleagues must be armed throughout France to fully ensure their mission of protecting citizens and their own security. Inaction is no longer an option.’

The deadliest single terrorist attack ever in the country came in November 2015 when 130 people were killed during one night in Paris. Suicide bombers pledging allegiance to ISIS targeted the Stade de France, cafés, restaurants and the Bataclan music venue, where 90 died.