Paris: 4 injured in an attack near the former headquarters of “Charlie Hebdo”



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On Friday, four people were wounded in a knife attack near the former headquarters of the newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” in the eleventh district of the French capital, Paris, two of them in a “very dangerous” state, according to the director of capital security.

As two suspects fled, police arrested one of them later on the steps of the Opera Bastille in Paris, according to Agence France-Presse. The local newspaper, “Le Parisien”, said that the attacker was armed with a machete and left the place by subway on Richard Loire street.

For his part, French Prime Minister Jean Castex, who came to the Interior Ministry emergency room to monitor the situation, said the Paris attack occurred with a knife. While the police imposed a security cordon around the former headquarters of the newspaper “Charlie Hebdo”.

Reuters quoted a police source as confirming the establishment of a security checkpoint around the former “Charlie Hebdo” headquarters, indicating that a suspicious package was found at the crash site.

The stabbing incident coincides with court sessions in Paris of the alleged accomplices of the perpetrators of the attack on “Charlie Hebdo” in January 2015, in which 12 people were killed, as well as a Jewish shop. Meanwhile, the newspaper again received threats from the “Al-Qaeda” organization after it reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.




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