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A knife attack in Paris which left one man dead and two women injured is being treated as terror-related, police have said.The assailant was shot dead by police after the stabbing in Villejuif, in the south of the city on Friday.In a statement on Saturday, police said investigations had revealed that the attacker had been radicalised having converted to Islam sometime between May and July last year.Image:French police secure the area in Villejuif near ParisCreteil prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the assailant was a 22-year-old man who had a long and serious psychiatric history.Ms Beccuau said he had shouted "Allahu akbar" - which means God is great in Arabic - several times during the attack.Officers said the initial investigations justify looking into "murder and attempted murder in relation to a terrorist undertaking".Investigators are looking at his phone calls and computer equipment.No accomplice has been identified.Image:Prosecutor Laure Beccuau and deputy director of the regional judicial police Philippe Bugeaud Philippe Bugeaud, deputy director of the judicial police, said a letter and several books about Islam were found in his bag.Some of the books are about Salafism, which is widely considered to be a strict interpretation of Sunni Islam.The two women injured in the attack have been discharged from hospital.
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