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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Clearly this sounds like an upset white   
   British national.      
      
    LOUVRE: Assailant wielding machete, shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ stopped by   
    soldier, police say   
      
   DEVELOPING –  A French soldier reportedly opened fire Friday inside a   
   shopping mall beneath the Louvre Museum in Paris after he was attacked by an   
   unidentified man wielding a machete and shouting "Allahu akbar."   
      
   The investigation is in its early stages, but the head of police told Reuters   
   that-- based on the attackers remarks-- authorities believe the suspect wanted   
   to carry out a terror attack at the famed museum.   
      
   The attacker was carrying 2 backpacks, but neither had explosives.   
      
   It is believed the suspect acted alone, but Reuters reported that a second   
   person was arrested.   
      
   "We are dealing with an attack from an individual who was clearly aggressive   
   and represented a direct threat, and whosecomments lead us to believe that he   
   wished to carry out a terrorist incident," Michel Cadot,  the head of the   
   police force, said.    
      
   The scene was chaotic. A police official reportedly said the soldier was   
   slightly injured, and responded with five shots. The suspect was reportedly in   
   grave condition.   
      
   Olivier Majewski was just leaving his scooter in the parking lot beneath the   
   Louvre when he saw a crush of people, 30 or 40, running and screaming "there's   
   been a terror attack." The 53-year-old said he hid for about 15 minutes before   
   gingerly making his    
   way upstairs. He said people were clearly scared.   
      
   "They were panicked," he said.   
      
   Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said that a second person   
   also was arrested but it is unclear whether they were linked to the attack.   
      
   Brandet said about 1,000 people were inside the actual museum and were held   
   inside in safe areas. He also said the identity and nationality of the   
   attacker was not immediately known.    
      
   The museum in the center of Paris is one of the French capital's biggest   
   tourist attractions.   
      
   Soldiers on patrol are part of security measures that have beefed-up in the   
   wake of terror attacks in France in 2015 and 2016.   
      
   A spokewoman for the museum told The Telegraph that it was "closed for the   
   moment" but would not confirm reports it had been evacuated.   
      
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