[ad_1]
Paris – Police arrested a “suspect” near Place de la Bastille in Paris after the knife attack that killed two wounded people on Friday, near the former offices of the comic newspaper Charlie Hebdo, according to the Paris police station. Paris.
After police first reported two suspects who had fled and four injured, the police station explained that a single person carried out the attack, which took place while a trial was underway in the French capital for the attack. to Charlie Hebdo in January 2015.
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.
On January 7, 2015, Said and Sherif Kouachi, armed with automatic rifles, opened fire on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, whose scathing mockery of ethnicities, religions and politics tests the limits of what society can tolerate. in the name of freedom of expression.
And 12 people were killed in the attack, which was claimed by Al Qaeda.
The following day, Amedi Coulibaly, an acquaintance of Cherif Kouachi, a French policewoman, was shot and killed. On January 9, four Jews were killed in a shop that sold Jewish food. He said in a video that he was working on behalf of ISIS.
Police killed all three attackers in separate clashes.
The defendants, who number 14, of whom three will be tried in absentia and may not be alive, face charges that include terrorist financing, joining a terrorist organization and providing weapons to the attackers.
Those absent are Hayat Boumediene, Rafikah Coulibaly, at the time of the attacks, and the brothers Mohamed and Mahdi Belhassen. All three traveled to areas that the Islamic State had occupied in Syria days before the attacks and may have been killed there.
Violence by Islamist militants has claimed more than 250 lives in France since the attacks, highlighting the difficulties France has faced in containing the threat from local and foreign militants.
With the collapse of the Islamic State, the Kurdish forces managed to arrest several jihadists of French nationality, but it seems that Paris does not want to take them back.
Charlie Hebdo reprinted a series of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The cartoons sparked protests in the Islamic world when they were first published nearly a decade before the attacks.
