A soldier guarding a major Parisian railway station on Monday was stabbed by a man armed with a knife, who was then arrested, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
The attack at the Gare de l’Est station in northern Paris came less than two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in the French capital.
The soldier’s life was not in danger, Mr Darmanin said on X, formerly Twitter, while a police source told AFP he had suffered a knife wound “between the shoulder blades”.
The 40-year-old suspect was arrested by other soldiers on patrol while the wounded man was taken to hospital “conscious”, the source said.
The public prosecutor in Paris has opened an investigation into attempted murder, which it said would seek to establish “the circumstances and the motivation”.
The suspect is a Frenchman born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a police source said.
