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On Friday September 25, shortly before noon, a man and a woman were stabbed in Paris, near the former office of the French satirical newspaper. Charlie hebdo. The man and woman are in conditions defined as serious but not life-threatening, and seven people were arrested in connection with the stabbing, including the alleged perpetrator, an 18-year-old Pakistani origin. Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, said the attack was “clearly an act of Islamist terrorism.”
The attack
It took place on rue Nicolas Appert, near the former editorial office of Charlie hebdo (which has now been moved to a secret location) and even closer to a mural commemorating the 12 employees of Charlie hebdo killed in the 2015 attack. The two injured, who were in the street smoking a cigarette during a break from work, are two employees of the television production company Premières Lignes. According to later reconstructions, the man and the woman were attacked with a blade-like object, later found a few meters away.
Arrest him
The alleged perpetrator, the 18-year-old man of Pakistani origin, was arrested some 500 meters away, with blood stains on his face and clothing. His name is not yet known, but Darmanin said he arrived in France about three years ago, as an unaccompanied foreign minor, and that his radicalization was not known. However, Darmanin added that about a month ago the 18-year-old was arrested because he was in possession of a screwdriver that, in a context of which no further details are known, had been considered a possible weapon. In addition to him, six other people were arrested: a 33-year-old Algerian and five other people born between 1983 and 1996, also of Pakistani origin.
The relationship with Charlie hebdo
In addition to being close to the sites of the notorious 2015 attack, yesterday’s stabbing came after the trial of those accused of being involved in the attack on the editorial board of the satirical weekly, but also in the subsequent shooting south of Paris. in which a policewoman was killed and in the following attack on a supermarket edible according to Jewish law, where four other people died. After the start of the process, Charlie hebdo he had faced new threats, particularly from Al Qaeda.
– Read also: The Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris
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