A customer was struck in the chest during the late-morning assault in La Seyne-sur-Mer, outside the Mediterranean port of Toulon, but the wound is not life-threatening, prosecutor Bernard Marchal said.

A woman working at a checkout counter was also cut over her eye. Both casualties were taken to hospital.
“It appears to be an isolated case by a person with known psychological problems”, Marchal said, “though that doesn’t exclude the possibility that she may have been radicalised.”