Man who stabbed a French soldier patrolling Paris ahead of Olympics is taken to psychiatric hospital WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio [Video]

PARIS — (AP) — The man who stabbed and wounded a French soldier patrolling Paris just days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics has been taken to a psychiatric hospital, French prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The stabbing occurred Monday outside the Gare de l’Est train station in eastern Paris. The city has been under a high security alert before the start of the Summer Games on July 26. The soldier was hospitalized with a shoulder blade injury, but was not in life-threatening condition, officials said after the attack.

A statement from the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office Tuesday identified the attacker as 40-year-old Christian Ingondo, who was born in Congo. Ingondo was released from custody Tuesday morning and transferred to a psychiatric hospital that is under police supervision, the statement said.

Investigations into attempted murder and the suspect’s background are ongoing, the statement said.

In 2018, Ingondo was under judicial investigation on murder charges, the …