Nine people are detained as Paris cleaver attack suspect says he wanted to target weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
A French police stands near the Opera Bastille where a suspect in a stabbing attack near the former offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo has been arrested in Paris, France, September 25, 2020.
Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said that the chief suspect in Friday’s stabbings was arrested, along with another person. Ricard said the assailant did not know the people stabbed, a woman and a man working at a documentary production company who had stepped outside for a smoke break. 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, the source said.The suspected assailant in Friday’s stabbing had been arrested a month ago for carrying a screwdriver but was not on police radar for religious radicalisation, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
“Manifestly it’s an act of Islamist terrorism,” Interior Minister Darmanin said in an interview with public broadcaster France-2. People in the neighbourhood were stunned, saying on French TV that they were reliving the nightmare of the newsroom massacre.“This tragic episode shows us once again that fanaticism, intolerance, the origins of which will be revealed by the investigation, are still present in French society...There is no question of ceding anything,” the newspaper said.The two people confirmed injured worked for documentary film company Premieres Lignes, according to founder Paul Moreira.
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