Overview
- The violence began after the man was ejected from a hotel for non-payment and returned with two knives and a baton.
- He stabbed the new room occupant as well as the hotel owner and the owner's son before moving into the neighborhood.
- At a nearby fast-food shop he tried to attack customers and was driven off, then injured two more people with a club on a pedestrian street.
- Police ordered him to drop his weapons and shot him when he advanced toward them, an encounter captured in video shared by Le Parisien.
- Authorities identified the suspect as a 1990-born Tunisian legally residing in France; one victim is in life-threatening condition, and Le Parisien reported prior antisemitic remarks as inquiries continue, with Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau expected at the scene.