PARIS — The French police on Tuesday arrested a man believed to have attacked and wounded three soldiers who were guarding a Jewish community center in the southern city of Nice, prosecutors said, heightening anxieties just weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris shook the country.
The soldiers were patrolling in the city center, near a Jewish community center housing a Jewish radio station, when a knife-wielding attacker “rushed at the throat of one of the soldiers,” Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, said in a telephone interview. The soldier escaped, and his face was slightly injured, he said. The same attacker, Mr. Estrosi said, cut the arm of another soldier. News reports said the attacker was arrested after trying to flee on foot.
President François Hollande issued a statement condemning the attack “with the greatest firmness.”
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Laurent Léger, a journalist for Charlie Hebdo and the left-wing Libération newspaper who escaped the shooting on Jan. 7 by hiding under a table, did not say whether the new cover of the issue would include any provocative images of the Prophet Muhammad.
“We will be guided by news,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday. “We are trying to revive the paper. We are recovering. But we still have injured people among our staff members, and we think about them.”
