French soldier injured in Paris stabbing attack, 10 days before Olympics; suspect held

A soldier guarding a major Parisian railway station has been injured in a knife attack by a man who was then arrested, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says.

The soldier’s life is not in danger, Darmanin says on X, while a police source tells AFP that he suffered a shoulder wound.

The attack at the Gare de l’Est station in northern Paris comes less than two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in the French capital.

“Thoughts to the soldier injured tonight at the Gare de l’Est,” Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu writes on X, paying tribute to the French troops protecting citizens.

He says the soldier is part of a special military operation to protect sensitive sites in Paris that was launched following the 2015 Islamist attacks on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper.