A religious Jew injured after a knife attack in Strasbourg. – Screenshot – Google Maps

a Jew wearing a yarmulke was the victim of a knife attack in Strasbourg. As information began to spread around noon on social networks, it could then be confirmed by the Journal du Dimanche .

Friday around 11am, a sexagenarian who wore yarmulke was assaulted when he was going to his home by a person who was in front of his building, located in the Jewish quarter in Strasbourg. He was wounded by a man who shouted “Allahu akbar” (information confirmed by the prosecutor in Strasbourg) at the time of attack with a knife in the chest. Stayed behind, the perpetrator was detained by witnesses without resistance. He has been arrested in the wake of the police.

According to a witness contacted by 20 Minutes , residing in the district, the arrest of a man “younger than the victim, thirty or forty years, certainly not a teenager or an old man” has made
 Finkmatt street at the corner of Avenue des Vosges and the Clemenceau Boulevard.

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The man with psychiatric history, had already committed a similar anti-Semitic attack six years earlier. In 2010, he was in fact taken to a forty that he too wore a skullcap, beaten with an iron bar and wounded with a knife.

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