Police investigating the stabbing of a French soldier in Paris on Wednesday arrested a suspect sources described as a supporter of “radical Islam”.
“The suspected perpetrator of the attack on a soldier Saturday evening in la Defense (business district) was arrested this morning,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said in a statement.
The statement said the suspect was arrested in Yvelines, just west of Paris. Sources close to the investigation said the 22-year-old man has been a follower of a “traditionalist even radical Islam for the last three or four years.”