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| DATE | 2020-09-27 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Charlie Hebdo
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wsj.com
Paris Knife Attack Near Former Charlie Hebdo Office Is Probed as Terrorism
Sam Schechner and Noemie Bisserbe
5-7 minutes
Firefighters carried an injured person following a knife attack in Paris
on Friday.
Photo: alain jocard/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Updated Sept. 25, 2020 12:21 pm ET
PARIS—Two people were seriously wounded in a knife attack near the
former office of Charlie Hebdo that prosecutors are investigating as a
possible terrorist act, more than five years after gunmen opened fire in
the satirical magazine’s newsroom.
The assault began late Friday morning when a man wielding what appeared
to be a butcher’s knife approached and began stabbing two employees of a
television production company who were taking a cigarette break in front
of their office, according to a person who viewed video surveillance
footage of the attack. One of the victims fled to a nearby street and
was pursued by the attacker, the person added.
The incident occurred on the Rue Nicolas Appert, the street where
Charlie Hebdo’s office was located at the time of the 2015 massacre,
police said. Police had two suspects in custody, including a man who
authorities said identified himself as a native of Pakistan.
France is still grappling with wounds that were seared into the national
psyche five years ago when gunmen decimated Charlie Hebdo’s offices.
That attack sparked an outpouring of solidarity around the world as
Charlie Hebdo became a symbol of tensions between free speech and
Islamic teachings that forbid depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. In the
years that followed, France suffered a string of attacks that killed
hundreds.
A cleaver that was used in the attack remained on the ground in Paris on
Friday.
Photo: /Associated Press
Earlier this month, France opened a trial of alleged accomplices in the
attack on Charlie Hebdo and a deadly assault days later on a kosher
grocery store. The magazine, which has since relocated its office,
recently republished the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that triggered
the attackers. A media group affiliated with al Qaeda’s offshoot in
Yemen released a statement encouraging attacks in France as a response
to the republication, according to the Counter Extremism Project, a
nonprofit.
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