PARIS -- French anti-terrorism investigators were combing
video surveillance tapes Sunday as they continued their manhunt for a
suspect who stabbed a soldier in the throat in the commercial district
of La Defense outside Paris.
The 23-year-old
soldier, Cedric Cordier, was in uniform patrolling the busy underground
corridors where shops and crowded public transport lines converge
beneath the famous Arch of La Defense.
Saturday's
stabbing came days after a British soldier was hacked to death on a
London street in broad daylight in a suspected terrorist attack that has
raised fears of potential copycat strikes. However, there was no
immediate confirmation of any link between the two attacks.
French
police have surveillance video of a suspect taken before and after the
attack. There are several security cameras operated by public transport
agency RATP and others placed throughout the underground shopping
center, according to one police official who spoke on condition of
anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss terrorism
investigations.
The official, who has not seen
the videos himself, said investigators describe the suspect as tall. He
couldn't provide any other description of the suspect. Police are going
over videos to try to identify the suspect, trace his escape route and
determine whether he was acting alone, the official said.
Cordier remained hospitalized Sunday, but officials said his throat wound wasn't life-threatening.
The French soldier was on a group patrol as part of a national protection program when he was attacked from behind.
Defense
Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who visited Cordier at the hospital
Saturday evening, said he had been targeted because he was a soldier.
Anti-terrorism investigators are leading the hunt for the attacker, but
officials have yet to determine whether terrorism is involved, the
police official said. Police also questioned witnesses to the attack.
Speaking
shortly after the attack while on an official visit to Ethiopia,
President Francois Hollande said that while "all hypotheses" will be
investigated, there didn't appear to be a link with Wednesday's deadly
attack in London.
French security forces have
been on heightened alert since their country launched a military
intervention in the African nation of Mali in January to regain
territory seized by Islamic radicals. British Prime Minister David
Cameron was in Paris meeting with Hollande when he first received word
of the London attack.
Last year, three French
paratroopers were killed by a man police described as a French-born
Islamic extremist who then went on to strike a Jewish school in southern
France, killing four more people.
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