A young woman went on a rampage with a box cutter earlier today in the town of La Seyne-sur-Mer on the Côte d’Azur in southern France. Two people were wounded before she was overpowered by customers in the supermarket where the attack took place. She reportedly yelled “Allahu Akhbar” while slashing at her victims.

The cookie-cutter news reports on the attack follow the template that has become the industry standard for the mainstream media:

The perpetrator had a history of mental illness.

She was “French”.

She acted alone, and had no connection to ISIS or other terrorist groups.

There is no mention of Islam or jihad, just that the suspect may or may not have been “radicalized”. The ideology to which she may have adhered in a radical form is not named or described.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for translating this TV news report, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below are excerpts from an English-language report on the incident from AFP:

Woman yelling ‘Allahu akbar’ slashes two with blade in France Marseille (AFP) — Two people were hurt in a town in southern France on Sunday when a woman shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) attacked them in a supermarket with a boxcutter knife, prosecutors said. A customer was struck in the chest during the late-morning assault in La Seyne-sur-Mer, outside the Mediterranean port of Toulon, but the wound is not life-threatening, prosecutor Bernard Marchal told AFP. A woman working at a checkout counter was also cut over her eye. Both casualties were taken to hospital. “It appears to be an isolated case by a person with known psychological problems,” Marchal said, “though that doesn’t exclude the possibility that she may have been radicalised.” “Several witnesses have quoted her as saying it was Allah who told her to do it, that they were all miscreants and that she wanted the police to kill her,” the prosecutor said. He added that “contrary to what was said at the start, she was not wearing a veil, but a black tunic over black trousers and black glasses.” […] The 24-year-old assailant, who did not have a police record, was overpowered by a customer and two supermarket employees and taken into custody. “I grabbed her wrists to get hold of the cutter,” said the customer, an electrician who gave only his first name, Sebastien. “I asked her ‘Why did you do it.’ She did not answer.” The woman “was in a panic, she was afraid, she did not understand what was happening to her, she had no strength left,” Sebastien said. Police later searched her home to determine if she had any links to the Islamic State group, but Marchal said they found only an old Koran and an Algerian flag. A computer was seized from the studio where she lived a few kilometres (miles) from the shop.

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