Death struck almost at the foot of the Eiffel Tower on Saturday evening. Around 9 p.m., a man, Armand R.-M., file S, killed a tourist between the quai de Grenelle and Bir-Harkeim, before injuring two other people in his escape. Although the police quickly arrested a French suspect, emergency services were able to provide some information about the victims.
The first victim was a German tourist, born in the Philippines, who would soon celebrate his 24th birthday, according to sources close to the investigation. He was with his partner, also of German nationality, when he was fatally injured. If she was not “physically attacked”, she remains “extremely shocked”, indicated Gérald Darmanin on Saturday evening.
“His whole life ahead of him”
According to information from Parisian, the German tourist was a nurse. Hit by “a large knife in the places where we kill”, in the shoulder and back, he could not be resuscitated, tells the daily the media emergency doctor Patrick Pelloux, who intervened on the victim.
He also spoke in English with the victim’s partner. “She would tell me what medicine I should put in the IV. I then asked her if she was a doctor, she replied nurse [infirmière]. » “He had almost his whole life ahead of him. Hatred and terror have no place in Europe,” reacted on Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister.
The other two injured out of danger
Pursued by several police officers, the attacker attacked two other people. An English tourist, born in 1957, was hit in the head, at eye level, with a hammer-type object.
Finally, a Frenchman in his sixties was also attacked, without the nature of his injuries being specified. “Their lives are not in danger”, but the Frenchman is “particularly shocked”, indicates the Ministry of the Interior.