Overview

• An Afghan man was stabbed in broad daylight on Saturday on rue Marx-Dormoy in the 18th arrondissement and died despite emergency care.
• Initial accounts, pending confirmation, indicate the confrontation followed an alleged attempt to steal a watch from another Afghan man.
• The victim was wounded in the thigh and abdomen, briefly pursued the attacker, then collapsed in front of a sandwich shop.
• A suspect was arrested minutes later on rue d’Amsterdam in the 8th arrondissement and placed in police custody as an inquiry opened.
• The killing comes roughly fifteen days after a separate fatal stabbing on the same street, with residents reporting worsening street violence and prior blade attacks.