Charlie Hebdo: Stabbings suspect 'was trying to target magazine'

  • 2020-09-26 17:58:35
A man suspected of stabbing two people with a meat cleaver in Paris has admitted to deliberately targeting the former offices of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine, French media report. The man, an 18-year-old born in Pakistan, reportedly linked his actions to the magazine's recent republication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Charlie Hebdo did this as a trial over the 2015 Islamist attack on the magazine which killed 12 people began. The magazine's location is now secret. The building in the French capital's 11th district which used to house Charlie Hebdo's offices is now used by a television production company. But the attacker apparently believed the magazine's offices were still there, a source close to the investigation told the AFP news agency, confirming other French media reports. The two victims of Friday's attack have not been officially named but police said they were a man and woman who worked at the production company. Prime Minister Jean Castex told reporters at the scene - near Boulevard Richard-Lenoir - that their lives were not in danger.

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