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One day after the knife attack in Paris in front of the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, the main suspect “assumed his act” that linked the republication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad by the satirical weekly, sources close to the investigation indicated this Saturday.
Arrested by the police in the Place de la Bastille shortly after the attack with a butcher knife that left two seriously injured, this 18-year-old man born in Pakistan “assumes his act that he places in the context of the republication of the cartoons, which he couldn’t stand it ”, according to one of those sources.
The suspect thought that the premises he attacked were still those of the satirical magazineadded the same source.
Friday’s attack took place in full trial by the bloody attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, which killed 12 people, including some of the most famous cartoonists in France.
“It is an Islamist terrorist act, a new bloody attack against our country,” said French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin in statements to channel France 2.
“A man arrived and attacked the two employees who were smoking in front of the building with a butcher knife,” Paul Moreira, co-director of the news agency and producer, told AFP. First lines, neighboring the old Charlie Hebdo headquarters.
The man and woman, employees of the agency, were wounded “in the upper part of the body,” and one of them in the head, he added. Both are hospitalized, but not in danger of death.
The antiterrorist justice system has taken charge of the case, which enlivened in France the painful memory of the year 2015 marked, in addition to Charlie Hebdo, by the even more lethal attacks of November 13 in Paris and a bloody hostage-taking in a Jewish supermarket in the French capital.
The editorial staff of the magazine, which has moved to a secret place for four years, He was the subject of new threats after his decision to re-publish cartoons of Muhammad on September 2, on the occasion of the opening of the process.
A new detainee
According to Minister Darmanin, the main suspect, who arrived in France three years ago, had already been arrested in June in possession of a knife, a “screwdriver”.
The suspect had been taken in by the children’s social services in the Paris region, upon arrival in France, and did not show “any sign of radicalization”.
The police detained two other people on Saturday, the brother of the main suspect and another acquaintance, a judicial source indicated, with which there are already nine people arrested in relation to this “terrorist act.”
A judicial source specified that another person who remained imprisoned, a 33-year-old Algerian, was released because he was not linked to the attack.
Five of the detainees were in one of the alleged homes of the alleged assailant, in Pantin, a suburb of Paris.
Since the unprecedented wave of jihadist attacks that began in 2015 in France, which has caused 258 deaths, several have been perpetrated with knives, particularly in the Paris police prefecture itself in October 2019 or in Romans-sur-Isère , in the south of the country, last April.
Fourteen people are being tried by a special court in Paris for the alleged support given to the material authors of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, who died after the attack.
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