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Two journalists were seriously injured in the attack in front of the old newsroom of the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo”. A connection to a terrorist process is obvious. The French Interior Minister speaks of an “act of Islamist terrorism”.
Paris. The place and time of the attack were not chosen by chance. Not far from the former editorial office of the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris, two people were attacked by a man with a knife on Friday afternoon. The two, a woman and a man, were seriously injured, but their lives are not in danger.
According to a colleague, he should have smoked in front of the building. They are employees of the television production company Premières lignes, whose workshops are located in the house where the Kouachi brothers carried out a terrorist attack against the editorial team of “Charlie Hebdo” on January 7, 2015. Eleven people died there. moment.
The trial of his alleged aides takes place in Paris for three weeks. This inevitably led to the assumption that there might be a connection between the knife attack and the “Charlie Hebdo” trial. The al-Qaeda terrorist network threatened an attack.
Shortly after the bloody attack, the police arrested a suspect on the Place de la Bastille. The man is said to have attracted attention for his bloodstained clothing. The French media initially spoke of two perpetrators. The second suspect is said to have not been involved. Several witnesses appear to have filmed the incident on their cell phones. In addition, the researchers received valuable information thanks to video surveillance in this area, which was immediately cordoned off.
Heavily armed soldiers were also used. All schools around the crime scene were instructed to hide behind closed doors to be on the safe side until further notice. Because there was also talk of a “suspicious object”. The fear that it might be a bomb, of course, could quickly dissipate.
Prime Minister Jean Castex, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, immediately rushed to the scene. A blade, as used by butchers, was seized as a weapon. The perpetrator is said to be an 18-year-old Pakistani who had not previously suspected.
“I only have one word about it: horror!”
On the other hand, Marika Bret, “Charlie Hebdo” chief of staff, has little doubt about a connection to Islamist terror. She explained: “This is a real hit. I only have one word about it: horror! “In the run-up to the trial of 14 suspected aides and accomplices of the terrorists in 2015, who died in the shootout with the police, she herself was recently threatened so massively that it was her home. She had to leave and move.
At the start of the trial, the weekly also reprinted the Muhammad cartoons on the cover, which were allegedly provocative and the motive for the attack, but which Charlie Hebdo defends as a symbol of freedom of expression. A few days ago around 100 newsrooms in France published an appeal to defend freedom of the press, which is threatened by fanatics.
Darmanin later described the attack on Friday night as an “act of Islamist terrorism.” There is little doubt that this is a “bloody attack on our country,” the interior minister said on French television.
He also asked the police prefecture to verify why the threat on this street had been underestimated, even if the editorial office was not based there for several years. The Agence France-Presse news agency also reported five more arrests on the night, citing judicial circles. The men were arrested while searching an apartment in Pantin, near Paris. There are now seven suspects in police custody.
Expressions of solidarity came from Europe, including the President of the EU Council, Louis Michel, and Giuseppe Conte, the Italian Prime Minister.
(“Die Presse”, print edition, 09.26.2020)
