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Charlie Hebdo wanted revenge on a French satirical weekly for publishing cartoons of Mohamed, the main suspect in Friday’s attack in Paris.
On Friday, a man with a butcher’s arm injured two people near the editorial office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. In the editorial building, two jihadist assassins killed twelve people in January 2015 and wounded eleven others. The two injured on Friday, a man and a woman, were taken to hospital, their lives in danger, the MTI wrote.
The alleged perpetrator on Friday was captured about 500 meters from the scene of the attack, his clothes covered in blood stains. The 18-year-old Pakistani-born man came to France three years ago without the company of an adult. According to the Interior Ministry, the security forces did not monitor him. He was arrested a month ago for carrying illicit weapons, but was released after being warned.
The investigation is being carried out by the antiterrorist prosecutor’s office on suspicion of an “attempted murder for terrorist motives”.
In questioning the main suspect on Saturday, he took action and said he wanted revenge on Charlie Hebdon because the newspaper reissued on September 2 the Mohamed cartoons that caused a terrorist attack on the newspaper in January 2015. The newspaper scheduled the reissue until that lawsuits were filed against 14 defendants as alleged accomplices in the 2015 attack. Just Friday afternoon, the widows of the victims testified in court.
The newspaper, whose editorial office reopened in a secret location after the 2015 terrorist attack, has received constant threats in recent years, even since it recently republished the incriminated cartoons. The alleged attacker on Friday, according to investigation sources cited, believed that Charlie Hebdo was still operating at his former location. The injured are employees of the production company Premieres Lignes. The company is involved in the making of a documentary on the terrorist attack of January 2015.
Since the butcher attack on Friday, seven suspects have been detained in connection with him, but one of them has already been released.
The 12 mock drawings of Mohamed in question originally appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005 and were first published by Charlie Hebdo a year later. The newspaper’s editorial staff was once set on fire in addition to the threats, and then on January 7, 2015, two French jihadists committed the terrorist attack. The murderers were pursued by the police for two days. Meanwhile, a third of his companions shot dead a policeman in one of the southern suburbs of the capital, and then the next day they took hostages at a kosher grocery store, four of whom he killed. The police carried out simultaneous operations with the three terrorists and released the hostages. In the three-day series of killings, 17 people were killed, including three policemen, and 21 were injured. This was the start of the wave of Islamist killings in France, in which more than 250 people lost their lives.
Featured image: XOSÉ BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
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