Knifeman shot dead by police after killing one person and injuring another in Bordeaux

April 10, 2024

A man armed with a knife has been shot dead by police after fatally stabbing one person and wounding at least one other in the French city of Bordeaux, local media reported.

Police do not initially think Wednesday’s attack was terrorism-related, BFM TV reported, citing police sources.

‘A police officer used his machine gun to kill the assailant on the Left Bank of the Garonne river, just after he had attacks by the city hall,’ said an investigating source. TV journalist Amaury Bucco posted a video of one of the alleged stabbings, saying the attacker was a ‘man dressed in a djellaba and armed with a knife’ close to the Pont de Pierre

Local prosecutors confirmed that the attacker was dead, along with one of his victims.

A third person suffered ‘very serious stab wounds,’ and was in intensive care, said the source at the Bordeaux prosecutors office.

Witnesses said they saw the knifeman ‘attack pedestrians with a bladed weapon after telling them off for drinking.’

Prosecutors confirmed that the dead person stabbed in the throat was an Algerian national, aged 36.

There are a couple of video clips circulating on X; I don’t know who took them, maybe Amaury Bucco above. They are easy enough to find, C News showed them on French TV but I’m not repeating the sight of men being stabbed and shot.

The investigating source said: ‘The man was set upon in Place de la Bourse [Stock Exchange Square] and was stabbed alongside at least two others. The other two were wounded and taken to Bordeaux University Hospital, but he died at the scene.

‘The attacker had reproached a group of North African people for having a drink – possibly because they should have been fasting during Ramadan.’ Ramadan is over now and today was Eid. But alcohol is forbidden to Muslims whatever the time of year. The source said it was likely to be ‘a brawl with an unknown motive’.

So not an ISIS inspired attack or jihad on the infidel, but still an Islamically inspired attack to enforce sharia law on, for the time being, other Muslims. Not very edifying behaviour. Neither are the incidents below.

This brawl in Manchester when the mosque officials had to relocate Eid prayers from the local park in (waterlogged after heavy rain) to inside a covered sports complex. An easy enough task for everyone’s benefit you would think? Not a reason for punches to be swung and fighting to break out.

And this attack on the police in Southall West London last night. This one does surprise me as Souhall had a reputation as a generally peaceful community of Hindus and Sikhs. Obviusly there are enough Muslims there now to generate an Eid gathering large enoguh to merit police supervision.