| 2017 Notre-Dame de Paris attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
  2017 Notre-Dame de Paris attack (Paris) | |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48°51′13″N 2°20′54″E / 48.853675°N 2.348208°E |
| Date | 6 June 2017 c. 16:00 (CET) |
| Weapons | Hammer |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 2 (including the attacker) |
| Perpetrators | Farid Ikken [1] |
| Motive | Islamist terrorism inspired by ISIL.[2] |
On 6 June 2017, at around 16:00 CET, French police shot a man who attacked a police officer with a hammer outside Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral on the Île de la Cité, located in the centre of Paris.[3][4][5] The man injured the officer with the hammer, and was found to be in possession of kitchen knives.[6][7] French police opened a terrorism investigation.[3][8][9]
The accused is an Algerian-born journalist named Farid Ikken, who won an award for his prize-winning human rights writing in Sweden, before returning to Algeria where he started an online news site, and then, moved to France on a student visa, he was pursuing a PhD in communications at the time of the attack.
According to the prosecutor, a video in which he pledged allegiance to ISIS was found at the accused's apartment.
- ^ Agence France-Presse (14 October 2020). "Farid Ikken, l'assaillant djihadiste au marteau devant Notre-Dame, condamné à 28 ans de prison". nouvelobs.com. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ Yann Bouchez (13 October 2020). "Au second jour de son procès pour l'attaque d'un policier, Farid Ikken fait l'éloge de l'organisation Etat islamique". lemonde.fr. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
LeMonde-170606was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Notre Dame: Man shot by French police after attacking them with hammer". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ Willsher, Kim (6 June 2017). "Paris police shoot man who attacked officer outside Notre Dame Cathedral". the Guardian. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "French interior minister says Notre Dame attacker had hammer, kitchen knives". San Francisco Chronicle. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Paris: Polizist schießt bei Notre-Dame auf Angreifer". Die Zeit (in German). 6 June 2017. ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Paris's Notre-Dame: Attacker shot outside cathedral". BBC News. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ McAuley, James (23 July 2017). "In France, murder of a Jewish woman ignites debate over the word 'terrorism'". Washington Post. Retrieved 29 August 2017.