Man arrested for stabbing French train hero

The police authority announced Wednesday that a man was arrested as the suspect of stabbing Spencer Stone, who saved the passengers on a French train from terrorist attack.

James Tran, 28, was arrested Wednesday morning for stabbing the airman three times on Oct. 8 in a fight near a bar in Sacramento, the capital city of California, the United States.

Several other people were also questioned for the attack, which seriously wounded Stone. But investigators found that the assailants did not know Stone was the hero that thwarted an attempted terrorist attack on a Paris-bound passenger train this August.

Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler were on their vacation in Europe when they tackled Islamic extremist Ayoub El-Khazzani, who was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle, pistol and box cutter. Stone suffered a knife wound to the neck and a severely cut thumb when fighting with El-Khazzani.

The authority told a press conference that they believe Tran and other attackers were not related to the European terror plot. Endi