First picture of tourist killed in knife attack near Eiffel Tower
The German man who was killed in Paris on Saturday night has been named.
The 24-year-old German man who was killed in a knife attack near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday has been pictured for the first time.
Collin, who is identified only by his first name, was attacked by self-styled Isis terrorist Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, 26.
Both Collin and his wife were nurses and had worked in a retirement home in Germany since January, said an investigating source.
He added: ‘The murder victim was devoted to caring for other people.
‘During his holiday in Paris he had visited the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Disneyland.’
Rajabpour-Miyandoab, who had severe psychiatric problems and who was meant to be under surveillance by France’s intelligence services, set upon Collin in front of his wife and another female friend.
Afterwards, he targeted a British national identified only as Melvyn.
The 66-year-old, who was on holiday in Paris, was on Monday recovering from a wound to his right eye in a central Paris hospital.
Rajabpour-Miyandoab was expected to be charged with a range of offences including terrorist murder today.
France’s Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, confirmed the suspect had officially been on an ‘S-list’, for surveillance.
Rajabpour-Miyandoab had expressed his anger at the mass killing of Muslims in Gaza by Israeli armed forces, and said ‘France was complicit,’ said Mr Darmanin.
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