Paris placed on terror alert after tourist killed near Eiffel Tower

The attack happened on Saturday night (2 December) in Quai de Grenelle, less than a kilometre away from the famous Parisienne landmark. A 66-year-old British tourist and a French man in his 60s were injured.

The BBC reports a 26-year-old male suspect was tasered before being arrested and charged with premeditated murder and attempted assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise.

Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said the suspect was known to authorities and had been imprisoned between 2016 and 2020 for making plans to travel to Syria and join Isis.

The UK Foreign Office said it was working with French counterparts to support the injured British national, and called on British tourists in Paris to “follow the advice of the French authorities” in an update to its travel advice for France.

It comes after a teacher was stabbed to death at a high school in the northern French city of Arras earlier this year, prompting the French government to raise the country’s national security level to the highest possible.