Overview

• Police killed a man armed with two knives and a baton after he injured five people near the cours Belsunce; one victim remains in critical condition.
• Prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said the Tunisian suspect, in France legally, returned to the Amira hotel after expulsion and stabbed a former roommate, the manager and the manager’s son before attacking others nearby.
• Officers attempted to use a Taser before firing, neutralizing the assailant at about 15:26; an IGPN review of the gunfire has been opened alongside an inquiry for attempted homicides.
• Investigators have not established a terrorist motive and the PNAT is not seized, with reported shouted phrases in videos under verification; media identified the man as Abdelkader D., 35.
• Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau traveled to Marseille as the area was cordoned off and trams disrupted, and separate knife attacks in Grenoble, Nice and Caluire-et-Cuire left one teen dead and two men gravely injured, with arrests and investigations underway.