France: A man is arrested after threatening passers-by with a machete and shouting “Allah Akbar”

The man ran around on Avenue Jean-Jaurès in Lyon and then got on a bus where he was stopped. Witnesses reported “unintelligible screams” and “strange sounds”.

A young man aged around 20 was arrested on board a TCL bus on Route de Vienne in the 8th arrondissement at 4pm on a Wednesday October 11, police sources told BFM Lyon.

Earlier in the afternoon, he had threatened passers-by in Avenue Jean-Jaurès by displaying a stabbing weapon and shouting “Allah Akbar”. The alarm was raised by employees of a sports club.

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