A man arrested after a knife attack on two soldiers on the streets of Nice in southern France was already known to intelligence services as having been radicalized, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday.
The suspect, named by the Nice mayor’s office as Moussa Coulibaly, 30, attacked a soldier and a comrade who came to his aid on Tuesday as they patrolled near a Jewish community center. They were slightly injured.
Intelligence services had detected the suspect’s radicalization in the Yvelines area, west of Paris, Cazeneuve said. They informed the General Directorate of Internal Security, or DGSI.
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The attacker injured another soldier trying to assist before he was stopped, with help from a passer-by, public transit officers and municipal police.
CNN’s Sandrine Amiel reported from Paris, and Laura Smith-Spark wrote from London. CNN’s Ariana Williams, Margot Haddad, Alexander Felton and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.
