PARIS, July 3 (Xinhua) -- A man on Monday tried to stab a soldier in front of the train station Lille-Flandres, north France, before being arrested and put into custody, BFMTV news channel reported.
A 53-year-old Belgian man, armed with a knife, sought to attack a serviceman patrolling the train station in northern town of Lille.
He was arrested in French-Belgian border and was placed into custody, it added.
According to the first elements, the man carried a letter indicating that he wanted to commit suicide, suggesting that the attack was not a terrorist act.
Soldiers have been the top target of Islamic State followers in France where the latest assault dated back on June 19 when a man with his car rammed into a police van on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris before bursting into flames. No victims were reported.
Few days before, a 40-year-old student in PhD attacked with a hammer and kitchen knives, police officers outside Notre Dame Cathedral in French capital and slightly wounded a 22-year-old policeman.
