A man armed with a cold weapon was arrested in the center of Lyon, France. This morning he was standing at a tram stop brandishing a knife with a three-inch (7,62 cm) blade. He writes about it The Progress.
It is clarified that the detainee has Afghan citizenship. He was taken into custody, an investigation is underway. At the moment, it is not known whether this arrest is connected with the terrorist attack committed on Thursday morning in Nice.
In turn, according to the mayor of the second district of Lyon Pierre Oliver, the intervention of the police made it possible to avoid a new tragedy.
Recall that today in two French cities, there were crimes that the authorities described as a terrorist attack. In Nice, a man cut off a woman's head and killed two more people near a church, and in Avignon, a man with a knife attacked the policemen shouting "Allah akbar".
