France comes under attack again
Spectator (UK)Jun 10, 2023
Knife Attack at Paris Train Station Injures Six
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The Facts
A man with a knife wounded five passengers and a border police officer on Wednesday morning at the busy Gare du Nord train station in Paris, France. The unnamed assailant was subsequently shot by police and is currently in critical condition.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin stated the man attacked travelers with what looked like a homemade weapon at 6:42 a.m. local time before off-duty officers returning home shot him three times within a minute of the attack.
The Spin
Left narrative
With French citizens facing yet another armed attack, it's clear that Paris has not only a violent racism problem — given the assault on Kurds last month — but also a domestic terrorism problem more generally. Both French and Turkish nationalists are now known to have stirred this hatred, and the recent stretch of protests and attacks will only continue until concrete action is taken.
Right narrative
France does have a crime problem, but what's often not mentioned is that it's disproportionately coming from young migrants. Tens of thousands of thefts are attributed to these new arrivals, some of whom become violent using knives or guns, and if the government continues to ignore this issue, it may very well only get worse.
