Stabbing in Villeurbanne, France by an Afghani Islamist

Joachim Veliocas

A 33-year-old Afghani asylum seeker carried out an attack in Villeurbanne, a Lyon suburb, in southeastern France leaving one person was killed and eight others wounded, three of the injured are in critical condition, officials said.

The man, who has no identity papers, said his name is Sultan Marmed Niazi.

An eyewitness in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, described the attack as frenzied. “There was a man at the 83 [bus stop] who started striking out with a knife in all directions,” person interviewed by Radio Scope said.

The bus driver asked him why the attacker did that and he replied that because they “don’t read Quran”.

Police arrested the suspected attacker and were holding him in custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

The attacker appears on a video broadcast on social networks talking to some people on the side of the road and beat by the hands of one of them and says, God willing.

Knife attacks in Europe have multiplied since ISIS demanded in its leaflets to “cut the throats of Westerners”.

In France, two young students were killed in Marseille in October 2017 by an illegal Tunisian immigrant.

In February 2018, a Chechen citizen stabbed a student to death in Paris’s Monsigny Avenue.

On September 9, 2018, in Paris, Sarasha Ali Khan, an Afghan born in Jalalabad in 1987, stabbed seven people in Paris indiscriminately.

France tolerates illegal immigrants who come to its territory, many of them applying for asylum, and France cannot sort the 120,000 applications it receives each year (2018).

The detention centers for asylum-seekers that meet their applications for refusal are saturated so the administration is releasing thousands of these illegal immigrants.

Thus, Ahmed Hannachi was released from a detention center despite his illegal status with the obligation to leave the country, allowing him to kill Moran and Laura at the St Charles station in Marseille in October 2017.