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PARIS. Terror at the Gare du Nord, one of the main train stations in Paris: in the middle of the afternoon a man, an asylum seeker in his thirties who was waiting for his train on a platform, was accosted and struck in the throat with a knife. And he is in very serious condition in the hospital. The attacker, on the other hand, is on the run and for now no one is unbalanced about the possible matrix of the attack while French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said – in a tweet shortly after the episode – that ‘The National Police is mobilizing to identify and arrest the perpetrator of the assault. “I am following the situation in contact with the Prefecture of Paris,” added the minister.
The attacker had been warned by several witnesses because he had been roaming the station premises for some time. He is a man with “European” features who at the time of the attack was wearing a blue T-shirt and an anti-coronavirus mask. He managed to escape and a manhunt is now taking place, especially in the districts near the station. The victim is a 32-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who struggles between life and death in the hospital where he arrived in very serious condition and remains on a confidential prognosis. He was hit hard with a kitchen knife and suffered a wound that affected the jugular vein, “from the chin to the ear,” according to health sources.
Images and videos posted by witnesses on social media show a gruesome scene: the man on the ground after being hit in a pool of blood while receiving first aid. At the moment, police sources point out, there is no trace that can explain the motive for the attack. But the investigation was entrusted to the Paris judicial police and not to the anti-terrorist section. Gare du Nord, located in a very busy district of Paris, is the station from where high-speed trains depart to the north, especially the Eurostar to London and the Thalys to Brussels.
