The scene where the French soldier was slashed.

A uniformed French soldier on anti-terrorist duties in Paris had his throat cut by a knife-wielding man tonight. 

The savage attack follows the murder of a British soldier by two men using weapons including knives and a meat cleaver. One of the suspects said they were acting in the name of Islam. 

Today there were fears that the Paris attack was a copy-cat crime and that a radical Muslim might once more be responsible.

FEARS!  It is highly unlikely that the attacker was a Baptist minister.

‘Police in the French capital described the attacker as a being ‘bearded, of North African origin and wearing a light coloured jihab’ under a jacket.

He pounced on the soldier outside a Virgin store in La Defence, the business district of the city which was packed with Saturday afternoon shoppers.

The attack on a soldier in Paris was being treated as a ‘terrorist incident’, said a source at the Paris prosecutors office. 

‘The anti-terrorist branch of the prosecutors office is dealing with the matter,’ the source added. 

The 25-year-old soldier was knifed as a he patrolled around the suburban railway station for RER A service which links the French capital with the suburbs.

Pierre-Andre Peyvel, prefect of the Hauts-de-Seine district, said the soldier’s wounds were ‘serious enough’.’

The soldier is being treated in Percy hospital in Paris.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330749/French-anti-terror-soldier-throat-slashed-jihab-wearing-maniac-North-African-origin-patrol-Paris.html#ixzz2UKpSk9CN

See also Associated Press report

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/french-soldier-stabbed-throat-outside-paris