1st LD: Soldier wounded in knife assault in Paris


PARIS, July 15 (Xinhua) -- A French soldier was attacked with a knife while patrolling Monday night at Paris' Gare de l'Est (East Train Station), French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin confirmed on his X account.

"A soldier from Operation Sentinelle was the victim of a stab wound while he was patrolling the Gare de l'Est station in Paris," Darmanin wrote.

The soldier is not in life-threatening condition, and the perpetrator was arrested immediately, he added.

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