2025-06-21
21 分钟The attack happened early, on a Tuesday morning in Paris.
It's maybe 8.30 in the morning.
You know, people are taking their kids to school or daycare.
Businesses are opening up.
People are having their coffee.
That's our colleague Sam Schechner.
A white delivery van pulls up and...
Three men dressed in black masks jump out and grab a 34-year-old woman
while she's walking with her husband and her two-year-old toddler.
Onlookers captured the attack on video.
They pepper spray the family and try to drag her into that truck.
And she screams.
And the husband throws himself in front.
uh of her and grabs onto her for dear life and won't let go and they're trying to pull her away you know she's screaming help help help and you know let go of me let go of me damn it eventually more people start coming and a guy who runs a bike shop right nearby runs out of the building holding a fire extinguisher,
and he kind of runs at the attackers.
And they just hopped in the back of that white van and sped off
while the bike shop owner just sort of threw the fire extinguisher after them,
just barely missing the back of the van as it sped around the corner.
The assailants fled the scene, leaving the woman, her bloodied husband, and her toddler behind.
Why did this happen?