Suspect in fatal stabbing at French missionary home arrested
PARIS (AP) — Police on Friday arrested a suspect in the fatal knife attack on a woman at a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France after a vast manhunt, authorities said.
The 47-year-old suspect — with no apparent links to Islamist extremism — was arrested about 100 meters (yards) from his home in a town not far from the scene of the attack on Thursday night, a gendarmerie press official said.
Some 130 police officers searched the area for the masked attacker on foot, in vehicles and by helicopter.