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Both injured are in critical condition. According to initial data, four victims were reported, later the information was clarified – two people were injured.
Shortly thereafter, a suspect was reportedly detained near the Bastille, the BBC reports. Police surrounded the area and asked people not to go near the scene.
Officials arrested an alleged assailant. Police said he was captured in the Place de la Bastille, adding that he was the only suspect in the attack.
It was initially announced that the attackers could operate in two.
Several schools near the scene of the incident are reported to have closed. Officials announce that they have found a tool in crime: a machete.
The attack took place while the perpetrators of the alleged accomplices of the perpetrators of the bloody 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo’s editorial office continued.
“There was a serious incident in Paris,” Prime Minister Jean Castex said after addressing journalists and ending his visit to the north of Paris to visit the crisis center of the Interior Ministry.
The prime minister said the attack took place in front of the old edition of the weekly in central Paris. The current address of the post is not published for security reasons.
On January 7, 2015, when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi began shooting at the weekly editorial, 12 people were killed, including some of the most famous French cartoonists. The victims are nine members of the editorial staff, a security guard, a visitor to the building and a former police officer outside.
Charlie Hebdo’s taboo style, including published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, has shattered society.
Since the trial that led Charlie Hebdo to republish the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, “we have received all kinds of horrible messages, including threats from Al Qaeda, calls to end the work started by the Kouachi brothers,” the magazine said. to the magazine earlier this week. human resources director Marika Bret.
Al Qaeda threatened Charlie Hebdo with repeating the massacre of its staff earlier this month.
Investigate as an act of terror
French counterterrorism prosecutors said on Friday they had launched an investigation into a knife attack that had seriously injured two people near the previous edition of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
The arrested alleged attacker will be questioned about a “terrorist-related assassination attempt” and a “conspiracy against terrorists,” prosecutors said.
In addition, the capital city police arrested another person for the incident, said a judicial source.
The person was reportedly detained at the Place de la Bastille, near the scene of the attack, but the reasons for his arrest are still unclear.
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