| Marseille stabbing | |
|---|---|
 "Le Grand Escalier" at the Saint-Charles train station Marseille | |
| Location | Marseille-Saint-Charles station, Marseille, France |
| Date | 1 October 2017 |
| Target | Travellers |
| Weapons | Knife |
| Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Ahmed Hanachi[1] |
| Motive | Islamic extremism[2] |
On 1 October 2017, a man killed two women at the Saint-Charles train station in Marseille, France. The women, 20-year-old and 21-year-old cousins, were attacked by an illegal immigrant[1] from Tunisia using a knife. Patrolling soldiers, who had been deployed on national soil following an increase in Islamic terrorist threats, shot him dead at the scene. The brother of the attacker was later arrested and faced preliminary charges of suspicion of involvement in the train station attack.[3][4] French police were cautious as to whether it was a terrorist attack,[5] but it was later classified as jihadist terrorism by Europol.[2]
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