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Two people were seriously injured in Friday’s knife attack in central Paris, outside the entrance to the former premises of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack, which prosecutors are handling as an alleged terrorist crime.
One of them, an 18-year-old alleged perpetrator, was arrested near the scene and reportedly admitted to committing the act.
The man says he deliberately targeted the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was the target of a terrorist attack in 2015 and has since moved its operations to secret facilities, sources told Le Parisien and Reuters.
He thought the victims worked for the newspaper
“He says he thought he was in Charlie Hebdo and that those he attacked worked for the newspaper.” says a person close to the investigation to Le Parisien.
The 18-year-old man came to France from Pakistan three years ago as a loner, Reuters reports.
The two injured people are a man and a woman, whose injuries should no longer be life-threatening. They were standing outside their facility and smoking when they were brutally attacked with a knife, according to investigators and one of their colleagues.
The 2015 trial against the Charlie Hebdo suspects is ongoing.
