Media reported on the detention of someone who was going to attack people in Lyon

This was reported by the CNews TV channel, citing sources in the police.

It is clarified that he was detained at the Parrash station.

It is assumed that the man intended to board the tram in order to attack passengers in it. 

Earlier, in French Nice, a man stabbed people with a knife.

According to the latest reports, at least three people were killed in the attack.

Media later reported that police in Avignon, France, shot and killed a man who was trying to attack the police with a knife.

It also became known that in the Saudi city of Jeddah, an unknown man attacked a guard at the French consulate.

On the evening of October 16, in a suburb of Paris, a young man beheaded a teacher, the attacker was shot dead by the police. French President Emmanuel Macron called the murder a terrorist attack.