A soldier from ‘Operation Sentinel’, created to protect the Olympic Games, is attacked with a knife

Knife attacks, attempts to kill and on several occasions succeeding, in particular, have been a classic of French and Parisian insecurity for a long decade. On the eve of the opening of the Olympic Games, the army and interior ministries doubled security measures. On the eve of the national holiday of July 14Over 130,000 troops were mobilizedGendarmes and police.

This is ‘Operation Sentinel’

Around 5,000 soldiers have been mobilised in ‘Operation Sentinel’ to protect the Games, who patrol, armed with weapons, at all hours through all the great national monuments, from the cathedral to the city. From Notre Dame to the Eiffel Tower And this Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre.

For several months now, all security services have launched successive alarms warning of the danger of attacks.

The man was questioned on Monday midnight Tried to kill a soldier with a knife. Criminal acts of this type have often occurred in those cases where characters with psychiatric problems are involved, Muslimsin its vast majority. But the disturbing risk of a criminal attack of a direct or indirect terrorist nature is never ruled out.