(Politico) French Prime Minister François Bayrou will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday to draw up a response to a deadly weekend knife attack in the Alsatian city of Mulhouse.
The alleged perpetrator of the incident is a 37-year-old Algerian citizen, a French Interior Ministry representative said. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said the suspect had a “schizophrenic profile” and had previously been expelled from France — but was subsequently barred from entering Algeria by local authorities.
“The Mulhouse assassin had been presented 10 times to the Algerian authorities so that his country of origin would accept that we send him back home,” Bayrou told reporters on Monday during a visit to the Paris International Agricultural Show. “It’s unacceptable.”
