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The two wounded are in critical condition.
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.
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.
“Four people have been injured and the condition of both appears to be serious,” he added.
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.
The perpetrators of the attack, supporters of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, said they had retaliated against cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Two days later, his accomplice Amedy Coulibaly, swearing allegiance to the jihadist group Islamic State, took a group of people hostage to a kosher food store. A total of 17 people died at the time, while three assailants died in police raids around the same time.
The magazine’s determination to risk offending readers, in the eyes of many French people, has made it an advocate for freedom of expression, although some believe the publication transcends borders too often.
However, the 2015 massacre brought a heartbroken country together and the slogan “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) became very popular.
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