PARIS—A man wielding a knife attacked residents of a French town while they ventured out to shop amid a nationwide lockdown over the CCP virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, on Saturday, killing two people and wounding five others in an act that led authorities to open a terrorism inquiry.
France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor’s office said the assailant was arrested near the scene of the attack in the town of Romans-sur-Isere, south of Lyon on Saturday, as he was kneeling on the sidewalk praying in Arabic. It said one of his acquaintances also was detained.
