No one was hurt in this instance. Apparently the idea was something along these lines: “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Val-de-Marne: two people placed in police custody for having set fire to garbage cans while shouting ‘Allah Akbar,’” Le Figaro, February 4, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
On the night of Friday to Saturday, February 4, two people were arrested in Champigny-sur-Marne, in Île-de-France, for “degradation of private property by fire, carrying a prohibited weapon and apology for terrorism.”
The two individuals were trying to set fire to a garbage can while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” The police intervened around 7:30 p.m. At the sight of the police, one of them, who was holding a knife (a blade of 15 centimeters), tried to get rid of his weapon by throwing it into a trash can.
The other also carried a bladed weapon, a kitchen knife whose blade length is estimated at 10 centimeters. He “continued to invoke the takbir (name given to the Allah Akbar prayer, editor’s note) during his arrest,” a police source told Le Figaro. Both men were taken into custody.
