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Main suspect admits bloody act
Posted: September 26, 2020 1:06 pm
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After the attack in front of the former headquarters of the satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris, the main suspect confessed to the crime. The man arrested after the attack was taking “responsibility for his act,” investigators said Saturday. As a reason he named the reissue of controversial cartoons of Muhammad by “Charlie Hebdo”, which he “could not bear.”
In front of the former headquarters of the “Charlie Hebdo” newsroom, an attacker on Friday attacked two journalists from an agency with a knife and seriously wounded them (we reported). A short time later, the main suspect was arrested near the crime scene. According to his own statements, he is 18 years old and comes from Pakistan. In addition to the main suspect, six other men were in police custody on Saturday. An Algerian who was initially detained was released that night because, according to the investigation, he had nothing to do with the attack.
Terrorist attack shakes France
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin classified the act as an Islamist terrorist act on Friday night. The Al-Qaeda terrorist network had previously threatened an attack due to the reissue of the controversial “Charlie Hebdo” Muhammad cartoons. In the attack on the satirical newspaper in January 2015, two Islamists murdered twelve people, including some of France’s best-known cartoonists.
The trial against potential sponsors is ongoing in Paris. On this occasion, “Charlie Hebdo” had republished the controversial cartoons of Muhammad, sparking angry protests in predominantly Muslim countries.
(Those: Apa / Ag.)
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