Knife and hammer attack near Eiffel Tower leaves German tourist dead, 2 others hurt

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A German tourist died and two other people, including a British citizen, were hurt after an attack by a man armed with a knife and hammer near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday, in what President Emmanuel Macron described as “a terrorist attack.”

Police quickly arrested a 26-year-old man, a French national, after subduing him with a Taser stun gun, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters on Saturday.

The suspect had been sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for planning another attack, and had been on the French security services’ watch list, the minister said, adding that he was also

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