MULHOUSE: French police have made several arrests since a man went on a stabbing rampage, killing one and wounding several others in what President Emmanuel Macron called an "terrorist act", anti-terror prosecutors said on Sunday. The knife-wielding suspect, identified by prosecutors as a 37-year-old man, was arrested at the site of Saturday's attack in the eastern city of Mulhouse. He was on a terrorism watchlist and subject to deportation orders.
A further three people were in custody in connection with the case on Sunday, the PNAT prosecutors unit said, without giving details. Local prosecutor Nicolas Heitz said the suspect was registered on France's terrorist watchlist. Speaking at the police station late on Saturday, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said the man had "a schizophrenic profile" and his act had "a psychiatric dimension". Retailleau said France had repeatedly attempted to expel him from the country, but Algeria refused to cooperate. The rampage occurred around 4 pm near a busy market in Mulhouse, a city of around 110,000 people near the German border. — AFP
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