Marseille Knife Attack: Perpetrator Was Tunisian Legal Migrant
3rd September 2025
French police killed a man suspected of stabbing five people in the southern port city of Marseille, one of whom is in critical condition, authorities announced on Tuesday, September 2.
The assailant—a Tunisian national legally in France—stabbed several people at a hotel that had just evicted him for non-payment, before attacking several others on a busy shopping street, prosecutor Nicolas Bessone told reporters.
“It would appear that he blindly and gratuitously attempted to strike people,” Bessone said.