Friend of Paris knife attacker arrested in Strasbourg: source

A friend of the suspect in the Paris knife attack on Saturday, May 12, has been arrested, police said./AFP/

PARIS, France (AFP)–A friend of the Chechen-born man who killed one person during a stabbing spree in Paris on Saturday night has been arrested in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, a source close to the inquiry said Sunday.

The attacker, whom official sources have named as Khamzat A., grew up with his family in Strasbourg, home to a large community of refugees from the Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya.