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Two suspects detained over knife attack outside Charlie Hebdo’s former office in ParisIssued on: 25/09/2020 - 12:53 French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation after at least two people were wounded in a knife attack in Paris on Friday near the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two suspects have been arrested.Two victims were seriously injured in the attack, the Paris police department said. France’s counterterrorism prosecutor said authorities suspect a terrorist motive because of the place and timing of the stabbings: in front of the building where Charlie Hebdo was based until the Islamic extremist attack on its cartoonists and at a time when suspects in the 2015 attack are on trial across town. ...The suspects’ identities have not been released, and it is unclear exactly what prompted the attack. An investigation was opened into “attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterpriseâ€, according to an official at the terrorism prosecutor’s office. ...
PARIS (AP) — French terrorism authorities are investigating a double-stabbing outside the former Paris offices of a satirical newspaper where a dozen people were killed in 2015, and two suspects have been arrested in Friday's violence, authorities said.France's counterterrorism prosecutor said authorities suspect a terrorist motive because of the place and timing of the stabbings: in front of the building where Charlie Hebdo was based until the Islamic extremist attack on its cartoonists and at a time when suspects in the 2015 attack are on trial across town.Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said that the chief suspect in Friday's stabbings was arrested, along with another person. Ricard said the assailant did not know the people who were stabbed, two workers in a documentary production company who had stepped outside for a smoke break.The suspects' identities have not been released, and it is unclear exactly what prompted the attack. An investigation was opened into “attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise,†according to an official at the terrorism prosecutor’s office. ...
... Prime Minister Jean Castex, who rushed to the scene, said the main attacker had been arrested and that the lives of neither of the wounded was in danger.A second person was also in custody after the attack, in which witnesses said a meat cleaver or butcher’s knife had been used as a weapon. ...Workers repairing the road told her “a dark-skinned man randomly hit a lady with a big butcher’s knife†in front of a mural that serves as a memorial to victims of the 2015 attack.A police source said the main suspect was 18, known to security services, born in Pakistan and had been arrested with blood over him. A second source said a meat cleaver had been found on the floor near a metro station. ...
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A man suspected of stabbing two people with a meat cleaver in Paris has admitted to deliberately targeting the former offices of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine, French media report.The man, an 18-year-old born in Pakistan, reportedly linked his actions to the magazine's recent republication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.Charlie Hebdo did this as a trial over the 2015 Islamist attack on the magazine which killed 12 people began.The magazine's location is now secret. The building in the French capital's 11th district which used to house Charlie Hebdo's offices is now used by a television production company.But the attacker apparently believed the magazine's offices were still there, a source close to the investigation told the AFP news agency, confirming other French media reports. ...
