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# Man attacks 3 women with knives in Paris before being stopped by bystander, witness says
July 27, 2026 / 12:28 PM EDT / CBS/AFP
_Paris, France —_ A French off-duty policeman on Monday detained a man after he allegedly attacked and wounded three women in Paris with two kitchen knives, a minister and police said.
The identity of the suspect and his motive were not immediately clear. Parisian authorities were still determining whether to launch a terrorism investigation into the attack.
Three women aged 19, 24 and 36 were taken to the hospital after the assault at around 11:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. ET) in the Porte de Clichy area in the north of the capital, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez and Paris police said.
Two were seriously wounded and in critical condition, Nunez said. One was hit in the lower back, the other in the abdomen.
The mayor of the northwest 17th district where the stabbings occurred, Geoffroy Boulard, said on X that one of the three was pregnant.
Nunez said the suspect was "apprehended by an off-duty police officer."
Police work in a cordoned-off area after a knife-wielding man wounded three people in Paris, July 27, 2026. Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty
Waitress Kheira Dellabed, 54, said she was washing dishes at the time of the stabbing.
"We saw a man walk by with two knives and stab three people," she said.