(Breitbart) Police arrested a 31-year-old man in Nice, southern France, on Friday after witnesses saw him strangling a woman in the street.
The attack allegedly happened in downtown Nice along the Rue Trachel at around 3am on Friday, with witnesses claiming that a man had been strangling a woman on the street while yelling “Allahu Akbar!”
Police arrived at the scene and found an injured 40-year-old woman who showed signs that she had been strangled, Actu17 reports.
The victim told police that she knew the man who had assaulted her and officers located the 31-year-old suspect a short time later.
A source close to the investigation said that the suspect would only speak in Arabic and had no identity documentation or weapons on him at the time of the arrest.