Los Angeles, Oct 8, 2015 (AFP) - One of the three Americans who helped to prevent the terrorist attack on a passenger train in Paris, Spencer Stone, was stabbed several times on Wednesday afternoon in Sacramento, California, reported local press.
The Air Force, which belongs Stone confirmed that the young man, 23, was wounded and taken to hospital.
"His condition is stable," said a spokesman for the US Air Force, Lt. Col. Christopher Karns. "The investigation was entrusted to the local police," he added.
The spokesman declined to comment on a possible link between the case and the train attack in Paris.
CBS News had indicated, without identifying its sources, that Spencer Stone was repeatedly stabbed.
But police in Sacramento declined to identify the wounded, but merely to say in his Facebook that a man had been taken to the hospital at 12h46 after a fight when he was in the street with a group of friends.
"He was stabbed several times in the torso," but "injuries do not appear to mortals," police said, indicating that no arrests had been made.
Police also stated on Twitter that the incident had no connection "with an act of terrorism." The facts occurred "near a bar where alcohol probably acted."
21 Last August, a Moroccan of 25 years Ayoub El Khazzani, who carried a rifle with nine chargers, intended to open fire on a high-speed train traveling between Amsterdam and Paris, when he was disarmed by Stone along with two other Americans Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos, and a Briton, Anthony Sadler.
Stone was promoted to sergeant and received in September the Aviator Medal, the highest distinction awarded to an Air Force member "by act of courage were fighting situation." Also received the Purple Heart, which rewards soldiers wounded in combat.
He had been injured during the intervention against the Moroccan.
In addition, the four were awarded in France with the Legion of Honor, the highest granted by the country.
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