Knife crime

Rocker Peter Frampton tweeted his support for gun ban Monday just hours after a 28-year-old woman opened fire in a Nashville area Christian school.

Two off-duty police officers have been stabbed in Soho, London, with one man arrested for inflicting grievous bodily harm and drug possession.

A Tunisian migrant attacked French police with a knife in southern France this week, yelling the phrase “Allahu akbar!”

Police have arrested one man under terrorism charges after a woman was stabbed ahead of the Cheltenham horse racing festival in England.

A boat migrant living in a hotel at taxpayers’ expense stabbed an 18-year-old student in the back at random, supposedly so he could be deported.

A North African migrant was arrested by Milan’s central railway station this week after committing five robberies and stabbing six people, seriously injuring two of them.

The British capital of London saw two days of horrific violence to start the week, with Monday alone seeing a man knifed multiple times during an aggravated burglary, three teens hospitalised in a triple stabbing, and a man set on fire.

A woman obsessed with serial killers and true crime documentaries has been found guilty of murdering her boyfriend with a Celtic dagger.

Police believe the stabbing murder of a 16-year-old transgender girl was “targeted” are yet to see evidence it was not “hate related”.

Knife slayings hit their highest total since records began in 1946 in the year to March 2022, according to official statistics.

Investigators said the suspect presents himself as a 31-year-old Algerian national and was known to French authorities under several identities for home invasion, theft, and rebellion in 2019 and 2021. He received orders to leave French territory in 2020 and in September of last year, the statement detailed.

A knife-wielding man has been hospitalised by police gunfire after going on a stabbing spree in the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris, France. 

A suspected terrorist has stabbed one policeman to death and shot another in the chest with the slain officer’s service weapon, in Brussels, the national capital of Belgium and the principal capital of the European Union. 

A teen accused of stabbing a 39-year-old man to death had already been arrested for another stabbing in May but was released pending trial. 

A man subject to a deportation order from France was arrested after he publicly yelled “Allahu akbar” in the street while carrying a knife. 

The Met Police reduced the number of pictures of knives on its social media platforms amid concerns of creating an unnecessary fear of crime.

Mayor Sadiq Khan has hailed the “good news” that a triple stabbing in Bishopsgate, London, “was not a terror attack”. 

A man accused of stabbing and critically injuring a policeman and a policewoman in London’s Leicester Square has been named as Mohammed Rahman.

Two police officers have been hospitalised after being “seriously injured” in a stabbing attack in central London in the early hours of Friday morning.

A 30-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was shot dead in the city of Ansbach, Germany on Thursday after stabbing random people at a railway station, reportedly while yelling “Allahu Akbar!”

A boy has been killed and a teen left fighting for his life after a 100-man “machete brawl” in Sadiq Khan’s London.

London’s multicultural Notting Hill Carnival has returned for the first time since the pandemic, accompanied by the traditional drug crime, sexual assaults, and deadly stabbings it brings in its wake.

Britain’s notoriously lax judicial system has reportedly seen nearly 40 per cent of repeat knife crime offenders spared from prison terms over the past year despite the government implementing a “two-strike” sentencing rule meant to deter them.

A 13-year-old has been indicted by a French court for attempted murder after he allegedly pulled a knife on an educator driving him to an airport to avoid a flight to Senegal.

A 28-year-old man from Mali has been indicted for raping prostitutes in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis last month and robbing them afterwards.

An elderly man was stabbed to death while riding on his mobility scooter in west London on Tuesday afternoon

A man was stabbed to death in broad daylight in Sadiq Khan’s London on Monday following a weekend of stabbings and shop lootings in the capital city.

Salman Rushdie’s agent has said “the news is not good” in an update on his condition after being stabbed on stage in New York.

Authorities alleged the teenager, who lived in Germany as an asylum seeker, attacked officers with a knife at a youth support centre in Dortmund.

A nine-year-old girl has been found stabbed to death in Boston, England, amid a nationwide surge in police-recorded violent crime.

A man on the French terrorist watchlist was arrested in Marseille after brandishing a large knife and threatening passers-by in the street.

An Afghan migrant still in Britain despite being convicted of 23 offences including a sexual assault has received a short sentence for trying to slaughter a teen boy like an animal on the floor of a public bus in Runcorn, England.

London’s Sadiq Khan may soon lose influence over local policing after a reviewer was told to examine stripping the leftist mayor of some of his powers.

Over 80 arrests have been made in London in a widespread and multi-force crackdown on drug gangs operating in and out of the capital city.

A police officer in Britain’s multicultural capital has been hospitalised by a machete-wielding man the London force describes as “suffering a mental health crisis”. 

Despite initially ruling out terrorism, German officials have now admitted that radical Islam, not mental health issues, was the likely motivation for a Syrian knifeman’s stabbing spree on a German train last November.