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Input: PARIS A French soldier patrolling a business neighborhood west of Paris was stabbed in the neck and injured on Saturday by a man who fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande said. 
  
 The 23-year-old was patrolling in uniform with two other soldiers as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terror surveillance plan when he was approached from behind around 6 p.m. and attacked with a knife or a box-cutter. 
  
 A police union spokesman said surveillance footage of the attacker showed him as tall and bearded, aged about 35, possibly of North African origin and wearing a white Arab-style tunic. 
  
 Hollande, in the Ethiopian city of Addis Ababa, commented on the stabbing to say police were hunting for the attacker but did not provide any details about his identity or any possible motivation for the attack. 
  
 "We still don't know the exact circumstances of the attack or the identity of the attacker, but we are exploring all options," Hollande told journalists. 
  
 Three days after a British soldier was killed in a London street by two men who said they acted to avenge violence against Muslims, the attack near Paris raised questions about a possible copycat attempt to kill a French soldier. 
  
 Interior Minister Manuel Valls noted the similarity in an interview on France 2 TV saying the attacker was clearly trying to murder his victim, but he added that it was too early to offer any theories. 
  
 "Let's be prudent for now," Valls said of the attacker's identity and motivations. "Everything is being done to arrest this individual." 
  
 Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told journalists near the site of the attack: "The soldier was attacked because he is a soldier." 
  
 "LOST A LOT OF BLOOD" 
  
 Pierre-Andre Peyvel, police prefect for the Hauts-de-Seine area west of Paris, said the soldier had lost a considerable amount of blood but would survive, and was being treated in a nearby military hospital. He was not named. 
  
 Witnesses near the commuter train station where the attack occurred gave conflicting descriptions of the fleeing suspect. One asserted on TV that he saw two men fleeing, while another said the scene was too confused to tell. 
  
 Peyvel declined to confirm or deny any description and said further details would be forthcoming. A source said police would broadcast the man's likeness if no arrest was made soon. 
  
 France is on high alert for attacks by Islamist militants following its military intervention in Mali in January, which prompted threats against French interests from AQIM, the North African wing of al Qaeda. 
  
 The latest warning was published on YouTube a few weeks before armed gunmen this week attacked a military base and a French uranium extraction site in the central African state of Niger, killing 24 soldiers and one civilian. 
  
 Valls said France would retain its current terror alert level at "red, reinforced", one step down from "scarlet", which is only activated in case of a serious and confirmed attack. 
  
 (Reporting by Nick Vinocur, Nicolas Bertin and Sunaina Karkarey; Writing by Nick Vinocur; Editing by Andrew Roche and Mike Collett-White) ||||| Paris (CNN) -- A French soldier who was stabbed Saturday on the western outskirts of Paris was targeted because of his military service, France's defense minister said. 
  
 "The aim was to kill the soldier because he was a soldier," Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told CNN affiliate BFMTV. The attacker wanted "to kill a soldier who is in charge of French security," he said. 
  
 The soldier was stabbed in the neck from behind with either a knife or a box cutter, a Hauts-de-Seine police spokesman said. 
  
 The soldier, 23, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement. 
  
 The attacker was wearing a robe and appeared to be North African, said Laurent Lefebvre, a spokesman for Syndicat Alliance Police Nationale, a French police union. 
  
 Hauts-de-Seine police said they were screening surveillance video. The case has been passed on to anti-terrorism investigators in Paris. 
  
 The soldier was on patrol as part of a heightened security plan initiated in certain areas following France's intervention in Mali earlier this year, French President Francois Hollande said. 
  
 The attacker fled, triggering a manhunt, Interior Ministry spokesman Marie Murault said. 
  
 The incident occurred late in the afternoon in the La Defense neighborhood as the soldier was on a joint patrol with police, the ministry said. 
  
 It comes days after an attack in which a British soldier was hit by a car and hacked to death in southeastern London. Moments later, one of his alleged attackers was filmed saying the soldier was killed "because Muslims are dying daily" and that "we must fight them as they fight us," in an apparent reference to British and allied forces' role in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
  
 London attack: Terrorists targeting soldiers at home again? 
  
 London attack mirror plot to behead Muslim soldier 
  
 CNN's Chelsea J. Carter contributed to this report. |||||
Output:
A uniformed French soldier was stabbed near Paris while on patrol today, prompting speculation that it may have been a copycat attack of Wednesday's London soldier slaying. The attacker is thought to be North African, and was wearing a robe and Muslim prayer cap, the Washington Post reports. He attacked the soldier, 23, from behind, stabbing him in the neck with a knife or box-cutter, Reuters reports. The soldier reportedly lost a lot of blood, but is alive in hospital. The attacker remains at large. "The aim was to kill the soldier because he was a soldier," said the French defense minister, per CNN, adding that the attacker wanted "to kill a soldier who is in charge of French security." Authorities are investigating any possible links with the London attack. But a motivation that is as or more likely, suggests the Post, is France's current military intervention in Mali.