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Police Take Down Knife-Armed Man Shouting 'Allahu Akbar' in Northeast France - Video

© REUTERS / Benoit TessierPolice secure a street near the scene where French soliders were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, France, August 9, 2017
Police secure a street near the scene where French soliders were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, France, August 9, 2017 - Sputnik International
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The incident comes just two days after a 22-year-old man went on a stabbing spree in the Paris suburb of Villejuif killing a man and injuring two women.

French police have shot a man in the thigh in the city of Metz in France's northeast after he threatened passers-by with a kitchen knife and shouted "Allahu Akbar". The police were forced to open fire after he threatened the officers, AFP reported citing police sources.

​The man, whose life isn't in danger, was later arrested. There were no other casualties in the incident.

​According to Metz public prosecutor Christian Mercuri, the man has been on the police radar due to his 'radicalisation and personality disorder'. Mercuri said he was in touch with terrorism prosecutors to determine whether the act should be treated as terror-related.

Riot police officers stand after a man attacked passerby Friday Jan.3, 2020 in Villejuif, south of Paris. A man armed with a knife rampaged through a Paris park attacking passers-by seemingly at random Friday, killing at least one person and injuring two others before police shot him dead, officials said. - Sputnik International
Paris Suburb Knife Attacker Was Mentally Unstable, Had no Terror Motive - Reports

This is the second incident in France over the past several days involving a knife attacker.

On Friday, one man died, and two women were wounded after a man went on a stabbing rampage in Villejuif, south of Paris. The man reportedly wore traditional North African clothes and shouted "Allahu Akbar" before the attack. The police shot the assailant dead.

The assault is being treated as a terror attack by the police. The attacker was also known to have suffered from mental illness.

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