Migrant Stabs Frenchman Inside Paris Metro Station 6 Times, Stabs 5 Others Including Cop Before Being Shot

PARIS — The Paris prosecutor said investigators haven’t yet been able to identify the attacker who wounded six people with a sharp metallic hook in the French capital’s Gare du Nord train station on Wednesday before being shot and wounded by police.

The suspect attacked several people, including a police officer, during the morning rush hour “with no apparent reason at this stage,” Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.

Beccuau said that the assailant was undergoing surgery at a hospital after being shot twice in the chest and once in the right arm. Investigators haven’t yet been able to interrogate him, she said.

The process of identifying the suspect was still ongoing because he was registered under several identities in a fingerprint database, based on his declarations in previous cases involving him, the statement said. He is about 20 years old and might have been born in Libya or Algeria, the statement said.

The statement described his weapon as a “metallic hook from which the longer part ends in a point.”

The victims were two men, ages 36 and 41, three women ages 40, 47 and 53, and a 56-year-old police officer, Beccuau’s statement said. Only the 36-year-old man remained hospitalized on Wednesday evening with non-life-threatening injuries, it said.