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Two journalists were stabbed in Paris on Friday morning, near Charlie Hebdo’s former editorial office in the 11th arrondissement.
The French police arrested two suspects in different places in the French capital: one in the metro and another on the steps of the Opera Bastille.
The first suspect is an 18-year-old Pakistani. Nothing is yet known about the identity and role played by the second detainee.
The injured are employees of the Premières Lignes news agency, located in the same building where Charlie Hebdo’s newsroom was located.
On January 7, 2015, the Kouachi brothers broke into the magazine’s offices, causing a carnage with 12 victims.
The attackers shouted “Allah Akbar” and “I have avenged Prophet Muhammad”. They were killed by the police.
Recently, with the start of the trial against the accomplices of the terrorists, the satirical weekly reissued the cartoons with the Prophet Muhammad that caused the attack in 2015.
Police initially announced that four people were injured in the attack, but the quoted official told the AP that only two people were actually injured.
The motive for the attack was unclear and it was unclear if it had anything to do with Charlie Hebdo, who moved its headquarters in the wake of the 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 12 people in the satirical weekly.
According to some AP journalists at the scene, the French police “flooded” the neighborhood, near the Richard Lenoir subway station.
Police isolated the area, including the former Charlie Hebdo headquarters, after observing a suspicious package nearby, according to the cited official.
???????? NEWS ADVISORY: Very large police force deployed in District 11. Knife attack not far from Charlie Hebdo facility.
pic.twitter.com/67i5TM5FKM– news alerts (@alertes_news) September 25, 2020
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