PARIS: An Afghan migrant stabbed a man to death and injured another after becoming angry when he saw them drinking alcohol during Eid. The man fatally stabbed one person and injured another on Wednesday in the French southwestern city of Bordeaux.
The attack took place in the early evening, near the banks of the Garonne River in central Bordeaux.
Police shot and killed the attacker minutes later as he threatened them with a knife. The incident happened in a central area of Bordeaux, popular with tourists.
Bordeaux public prosecutor Frédérique Porterie told journalists: “The attacker reproached the victims for drinking alcohol during Eid.”
“They told him it was none of his business, and he punched them before walking away. They threw cans at him and he returned and took out a knife.”
Le Monde reports that a man wearing “a qamis and a keffiyeh covering his face and revealing only his eyes,” approached and spoke to two men aged 26 and 37, both born in Algeria, who were drinking beers.
According to the account given by the younger man, who survived the attack, the man had criticized them, “in broken French,” for drinking alcohol on the day of Eid.
The assailant then punched them several times before walking away. According to several witnesses, the two friends got up and threw beer cans in his direction.
The man then turned back, pulled out a switchblade knife and stabbed them violently.
