The assailant slit the throat of a 40-year-old man in front of his companion in the center of Romans-sur-Isere, just south of Lyon, French authorities said. The suspect then attacked two tobacco store workers and a customer and headed to a butcher's store.

"For now, we do not know the motive behind this attack," the mayor's office of Romans-sur-Isere said in a statement.
Police told French media the suspect, age 33, was an asylum seeker from Sudan who had been living in the area.



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When they "don't know the motive", we all know the motive.

Really Mayor, you have no clue as to motive ?

What are the odds that this will affect his application?