French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives near Porte de Clichy in Paris, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters.

The man attacked the three women, who were aged 19, 24 and 36, with two kitchen knives, severely wounding two of them, Nunez said, adding that their lives were not in danger. One was hit in the lower back, another in the abdomen.

District Mayor Geoffroy Boulard said one of the women was pregnant, according to The Times, a British publication.

Video aired on social platform X and verified by Reuters showed a man with long black hair, wearing a cream tracksuit and wielding one big knife in each hand, stabbing and attempting to attack a young woman. It is unclear if the woman was injured.

Another video showed the same man lying on the ground, immobilized by bystanders, while the two knives lie nearby on a pedestrian crossing.

“It is Allah who commanded me,” the man lying on the floor said. The Times reported that a police source said the man told officers, ‘“Allah sent me to kill women.”

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