The mentally troubled radical Islamist says he slaughtered the German tourist in Paris because of the Palestinians' murder

A 26-year-old known French authorities for radical Islamism with mental health problems stabbed a tourist and injured two others in downtown Paris late Saturday before being arrested. Prosecutors open the investigation for a suspected <x0) terrorist”

The attack near the Eiffel Tower around 9:00 local time took place during a busy weekend at the site that has raised readiness at the highest level as tensions rise in the background of the Gaza war.

Prosecutors specialising in terrorist incidents told AFP that they had opened an investigation into the attacker, called Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a French citizen born in 1997 by Iranian parents, who was arrested immediately after the attack he carried out with a knife and hammer.

He is suspected of killing a 23-year-old German tourist, writes France 24, broadcasting Express.

It will be further investigated for attempted murder of two injured, a 66-year-old British national and a 60-year-old French national, “associated with a terrorist plot”.

Rajabpour-Miyandoab, known to authorities and in mental illness treatment, shouted “Allahi Akbar” at the moment of attack, Interior Minister Gerald Darman said at the scene near the Bir Hakeim Bridge on the Seine River.

The suspect, who lived with his parents in the Essonne region in southern Paris, told police that he could not bear killing Muslims at “Afganistan and Palestine” and accused France of being “co-worker of what Israel is doing” in the Gaza Strip”, Darman added.