Lyon train station attack: the political class provides support to the victims

Europe 1 / Photo credit: Thomas SAMSON / AFP 1:13 p.m., February 3, 2024

This Saturday morning, three people were injured, including one seriously, after a knife and hammer attack at Lyon station in Paris. The attacker, a man of Malian origin with Italian papers, therefore legally present on French territory, was quickly arrested. According to the first elements of the investigation, the terrorist nature of the act is not accepted at this stage, and the 32-year-old man suffers from “psychiatric disorders”. Quickly, several political figures reacted. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, immediately thanked “those who controlled the author of this unbearable act”.

“Solidarity and support”

Messages of support then multiplied, such as Eric Ciotti, the leader of the Republicans, who wished "support and speedy recovery to the three people attacked by a man armed with a knife and a hammer this morning at the Gare de Lyon". For her part, the LR president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, "waits for all light to be shed on the circumstances of this tragedy".

Violent attack at #GaredeLyon: I am waiting for all the light to be shed on the circumstances of this tragedy. My warm thanks to the police and the Suge agents who intervened very quickly. I wish a speedy recovery to the three injured. https://t.co/gYgMSy56Ev

— Valérie Pécresse (@vpecresse) February 3, 2024

“Total support for the people attacked and injured this morning in the 12th arrondissement of Paris,” also wrote former Minister of Transport Clément Beaune. All three thanked the security forces for their action.

For her part, the environmentalist MP for Paris Sandrine Rousseau brought “all my solidarity and support to the victims and witnesses of the attack”.

Tragic attack at Gare de Lyon this morning.

All my solidarity and support to the victims and witnesses of the attack. #Lyon station

— Sandrine Rousseau (@sandrousseau) February 3, 2024