[DAWN]
The assailant in Monday evening’s attack, at a barracks in Dieuze in eastern France, wounded one officer in the hand. Police shot and wounded the knifeman, who is now in hospital.
Shortly before the attack, a call was placed to the police from someone saying he was in the armed forces and was preparing an attack in Dieuze in the name of the militant Islamic State (IS) group, French media cited local prosecutors as saying.
A 19-year old serviceman was named a suspect in the attack on a gendarmerie station in France, which took place after police received a threat of a massacre in the name of Islamic State.
The suspect was “a young soldier who was completing his two months of initial training and was on probation,” Defense Minister Florence Parly confirmed on Tuesday. She added that the man was not on duty during the attack.
The prosecutor in the northeastern city of Metz Christian Mercuri told reporters that the 19-year-old alleged culprit joined the army in early December.
In the aftermath of the stabbing attack carried out at the Dieuze (Moselle) gendarmerie barracks, Matthias R., the alleged perpetrator, has been heard since Tuesday morning by investigators from the Metz judicial police, co- seized with the gendarmes of the research section. Operated overnight after being injured in the abdomen, the 19-year-old soldier is out of danger.
Sources close to the investigation, the assailant was neither known to the intelligence services nor to the justice system. "There are no known elements of radicalization concerning him," explains one of these sources. Without prejudice, there could be a predominant suicidal dimension in his gesture. "
Monday, it is 2.39 pm when the operational center of the gendarmerie receives an alarming call via the 17. The interlocutor explains that he is on the point of committing mass killing in Dieuze and claims to be a terrorist organization Islamic State (EI). Thirty minutes later, Matthias R., dressed in civilian clothes, entered the local brigade with a knife. Then threatens to kill a policeman he meets before jumping on him. The latter, injured in the hand, retorts and shoots the attacker twice. 
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