⁍ The man believed to have attacked and wounded two people with a meat cleaver on Friday is cooperating with the police.
⁍ The attack took place in front of a building where Islamist militants gunned down employees of Charlie Hebdo in 2015.
⁍ It coincided with the start this month of the trial of 14 alleged accomplices in the Charlie Hebdo attack.
– A man wielding a meat cleaver attacked and wounded two people Friday in front of the building where French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked in 2015 by Islamist militants, Reuters reports. According to the AP, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says the suspect is from Pakistan and arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor. He was detained immediately after the attack. A second suspect was detained moments after the attack and prosecutors were trying to establish his relation to the attacker. He was released free of charge. Charlie Hebdo vacated its offices after the 2015 attack and is now in a secret location. The building is now used by a television production company. Two of the production company’s staff, a man and a woman, were in the street having a cigarette break when they were attacked. After the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, investigators said the militants had wanted to avenge the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in the magazine. Charlie Hebdo republished the cartoons on the eve of the trial. Al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist group that claimed responsibility for the 2015 attack, threatened to attack Charlie Hebdo again after it republished the cartoons.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-paris/paris-knife-attacker-suspect-says-he-wanted-to-go-after-charlie-hebdo-idUSKBN26H0D9