[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Knifeman is shot and wounded after attacking three police officers in Cannes
- Threatened staff outside main Police Commissariat 'in the name of the Prophet'
- Investigating source says he 'pulled open car door and started stabbing' at 6am
- Assailant identified as 37-year-old Algerian who 'wanted to kill a cop', police said
The attacker was from the Algerian port of Skikda, and entered France through Italy.
‘He obtained a residence permit in Italy and he came to France to commit his crime,’ said David Lisnard, the Mayor Cannes.
French interior minister Gerald Darmanin added that the assailant is a 37-year-old Algerian passport holder who arrived in Europe around 2009-10 and has been in France since 2016, having traveled from Italy where he had a residence permit.
Darmanin said the attacker had been trying to obtain a French resident card for "several weeks" but had not been granted one.
| And there we have the motive for his attack on a uniformed unbeliever. |
The assailant suffered unspecified injuries and is currently "between life and death" at Cannes hospital. He had no previous criminal record in France, said Darmanin. |