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Investigators at the scene in Paris after Friday’s attack.
The 18-year-old who was arrested after Friday’s bloody attack in front of the former premises of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris has confessed, according to police. According to sources, the man incorrectly believed that the magazine was still at the address.
The 18-year-old went on the attack with a meat ax in front of the old Charlie Hebdo facility on Friday, wounding two people. The man was born in Pakistan and came to France three years ago.
According to the man, the motive for the attack was to get revenge on Charlie Hebdo after the magazine republished cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Since the 2015 attack, the magazine has moved to a secret address. According to AFP sources, the 18-year-old mistakenly believed that Charlie Hebdo’s newsroom was still in the same building.
The two people injured in Friday’s attack instead worked for a television production company, whose office is located on the same block where the Charlie Hebdo facility was previously located. Both were seriously injured but their lives are not in danger.
The event took place at the same time as the trial for the great terrorist attack against the Charlie Hebdo newsroom in the French capital in 2015, which claimed twelve lives.
A total of nine people have been arrested for their involvement in what the government called “Islamist terrorism,” but they are not believed to have participated in the attack itself. Several of them lived at the same address as the 18-year-old arrested.
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