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Paris – In the French capital, Paris, near the former offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, there was a knife attack in which, according to initial reports, two people were seriously injured.
French police said a person carried out the attack at a time when a trial was underway in Paris in connection with the attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, which killed 12 people and sowed widespread fears throughout. the country.
French police arrested the two suspects at a time when “France 24” reported the arrest of a person suspected of carrying out a knife attack near the former headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
Threats against the magazine have escalated again from the “Al Qaeda” organization since the reissue of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, where members of the organization promised to repeat the attack on the magazine.
Police removed the newspaper’s human resources director, Charlie Hebdo, from his home after receiving death threats.
Marika Brett, who has been under police protection for almost five years after the attack on the newspaper’s headquarters, said the threats were “high enough to be taken seriously,” adding that she would not be returning home.
Brett told the magazine that there was “an enormous amount of hatred surrounding Charlie Hebdo,” and said the forced departure from his home “translates into an unprecedented level of tension that we have to deal with.”
He noted that since the beginning of the trial, which led Charlie Hebdo to republish the controversial cartoons, “we have received all kinds of horrible messages, especially threats from al-Qaeda and calls to end the mission that the Kouachi brothers started.” .
Journalists and media workers in France see these threats as a real provocation to freedom of expression in the country by going beyond Charlie Hebdo because it also targets all media.
On January 7, 2015, Said and Sherif Kouachi, armed with automatic rifles, opened fire at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, which published satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, sparking a wave of widespread anger in the Islamic world and condemnation. against the magazine, which justified the publication process under the name of freedom of expression.
The stabbing incident comes at a time when the security services are on high alert in anticipation of any attack and to block attempts to revive terrorist elements due to the capabilities of ISIS and al-Qaeda to reorganize.
French authorities evacuated the Eiffel Tower after receiving a false warning about a bomb before reopening it, amid extensive security measures.
The alert status of the French security services, according to observers, reflects the continuing threat from Islamist groups, which still exists in many forms in France and Europe in general, despite their limited capabilities today.
