Sentinelle soldiers on patrol. AFPA female anti-terror soldier was attacked on Tuesday in the southern city of Lyon, but police said the assault was "not terror-related". The 50-year-old man attacked a female soldier on Sentinelle duty - France's military anti-terror operation - on Tuesday night at around 10pm, Le Parisien reported. After jumping on the soldier - the only female on patrol at the time - he tried to strangle her at Place d'Arsonval in the city's 8th arrondissement. Operation Sentinelle was put into action after the January 2015 attacks at Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish supermarket.

Source: The Local August 23, 2017 12:55 UTC