Off-duty officer detains knife attacker after Paris assault on three women

Three women attacked with knives; two severely wounded in the incident near Porte de Clichy on Monday.

On a Monday afternoon in Paris, near the Porte de Clichy, a man armed with two kitchen knives turned an ordinary street into a scene of sudden violence, wounding two women severely before ordinary people — not institutions — brought him to the ground. A bystander's shout, a thrown suitcase, and a tackle by Mohamed-Ali Bouhadjar accomplished what no authority had yet arrived to do. What followed was the slower, more uncertain work of the state: an off-duty officer formalizing a detention already made, prosecutors weighing words spoken by a man lying on concrete, and a city left to sit with ques

Off-duty officer detains knife attacker after Paris assault on three women

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