One person was killed and another injured when an assailant attacked passers-by in central Paris, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote on social media X on Saturday.

“The police have just bravely arrested an assailant who attacked passers-by in Paris, around the Quay de Grenelle. One person died and one was injured, who is receiving first aid from the Paris fire service. Please avoid the area,” he wrote. the minister.

The attacker killed one man on the spot with a knife and wounded another on Saturday night in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, while allegedly shouting “Allah Akbar” before being arrested, a police source said.

The attacker who inflicted the fatal blows was “born in France” and is “French”, the source said, adding that the injured man was receiving first aid from Paris firefighters.