3 women stabbed in Paris; suspect arrested, says, ‘Allah commanded me’
Pregnant woman reportedly among victims, all of whom are expected to survive; French interior minister says motive still unknown, attacker’s statements ‘incoherent’ upon arrest
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French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives near Porte de Clichy in Paris, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters.
The man attacked the three women, who were aged 19, 24 and 36, with two kitchen knives, severely wounding two of them, Nunez said, adding that their lives were not in danger. One was hit in the lower back, another in the abdomen.
District Mayor Geoffroy Boulard said one of the women was pregnant, according to The Times, a British publication.
Video aired on social platform X and verified by Reuters showed a man with long black hair, wearing a cream tracksuit and wielding one big knife in each hand, stabbing and attempting to attack a young woman. It is unclear if the woman was injured.
Another video showed the same man lying on the ground, immobilized by bystanders, while the two knives lie nearby on a pedestrian crossing.
“It is Allah who commanded me,” the man lying on the floor said. The Times reported that a police source said the man told officers, ‘“Allah sent me to kill women.”
BREAKING:
The man who carried out today’s mass-stabbing against 3 women in Paris says
“It was Allah who ordered me to do it” pic.twitter.com/HATeNVVb8y
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 27, 2026
Nunez said the man had been detained by an off-duty police officer. “I pay tribute to him, it was a courageous act,” he added.
The attacker’s motive remains unknown, Nunez said, adding that police could not verify the identity of the attacker, whose declarations were “incoherent” while he was being arrested.
The French national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said it was weighing whether to open an investigation.
The attack comes after an Islamist radical on Saturday in the German capital of Berlin plowed a rented minivan into a Pride parade, killing one woman and wounding 29.
Two days earlier, a man who police said shouted “Allahu alkbar” stabbed two men on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He has been charged with hate crimes and attempted murder.
The Times of Israel Community.