BRKG There might be something going in in Paris related to Charlie Hebdo
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Attaque à l’arme blanche près des anciens locaux de « Charlie Hebdo » : le principal suspect a assumé son acte en garde à vue
Un deuxième homme, rapidement interpellé vendredi après-midi près de Bastille après avoir été aperçu en train de discuter avec le principal suspect, a été mis hors de cause. Sept personnes sont toujours en garde à vue.
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Deux blessés dans une attaque à l’arme blanche près des anciens locaux de « Charlie Hebdo » à Paris, le suspect principal interpellé
Le Parquet national antiterroriste a été saisi, et une enquête a été ouverte pour « tentative d’assassinat en relation avec une entreprise terroriste » et « association de malfaiteurs terroriste criminelle ».
Le Monde avec AFP et Reuters Publié aujourd’hui à 12h45, mis à jour à 21h12
Temps de Lecture 5 min.
Une attaque à l’arme blanche a fait deux blessés, vendredi 25 septembre à Paris, près des anciens locaux de Charlie Hebdo, dans le 11e arrondissement, et le suspect principal a été interpellé par la police. Le Parquet national antiterroriste a été saisi d’une enquête pour « tentative d’assassinat en relation avec une entreprise terroriste », confiée à la brigade criminelle et à la direction générale de la sécurité intérieure.
Invité au journal de 20 heures, sur France 2, le ministre de l’intérieur, Gérald Darmanin, a estimé qu’il s’agissait « manifestement [d’un] acte de terrorisme islamiste ». Il a également ajouté : « C’est la rue où il y avait Charlie Hebdo, c’est le mode opératoire des terroristes islamistes, bien évidemment, cela fait peu de doute, c’est une nouvelle attaque sanglante contre notre pays. »
Les deux blessés font partie de l’agence Premières Lignes, dont l’immeuble se situe au 10, rue Nicolas-Appert, là où se trouvaient les anciens locaux de Charlie Hebdo. Ils avaient déjà été les témoins impuissants de l’attaque de janvier 2015. Selon nos informations, la première victime, une femme, s’occupe de l’accueil, tandis que la seconde victime est un assistant de production au sein de cette structure, qui fournit des prestations à une multitude de sociétés de production.
Les faits se seraient déroulés à proximité immédiate de la fresque de street-art réalisée en hommage aux victimes du 7 janvier 2015. « C’est là qu’on fume nos clopes », explique un journaliste, qui venait d’achever la sienne et était remonté dans les étages quand il a entendu des cris dans la rue. « Cela s’est passé vers 11 h 45, un homme est arrivé et a attaqué avec un hachoir deux salariés qui fumaient devant l’immeuble », a déclaré à l’AFP Paul Moreira, fondateur et codirigeant de Premières Lignes. « L’homme et la femme ont été tous les deux très gravement blessés », a-t-il ajouté.
« Une partie de nos équipes, présente dans les locaux de Bocode, ont été évacuées par la police après les faits », raconte Jacques Aragones, dirigeant de TV Presse Productions (« Enquête exclusive », « Envoyé spécial », etc.). « Ils ont été rassemblés dans le théâtre voisin Comédie Bastille, où les témoins ont été interrogés par la police. Puis, ceux qui le souhaitaient ont rejoint la mairie du 11e arrondissement, où a été montée une cellule psychologique, tandis que les autres sont revenus dans nos locaux, situés à quelques mètres de là. »
Une photo diffusée sur les réseaux sociaux montre un hachoir ensanglanté. Une source proche de l’enquête a confirmé à l’AFP qu’il s’agissait bien de l’arme utilisée lors de l’attaque. Le procureur de la République de Paris, Rémy Heitz, a fait savoir dans un communiqué publié vendredi soir qu’une enquête avait été ouverte du chef de violation du secret de l’enquête « à la suite de la diffusion de différentes photographies en lien » avec les investigations.
7 personnes en garde à vue, dont l’agresseur présumé
Cette attaque survient alors que la rédaction de Charlie Hebdo fait l’objet de nouvelles menaces depuis que l’hebdomadaire a republié des caricatures de Mahomet le 2 septembre, à l’occasion de l’ouverture du procès des attentats de janvier 2015, qui doit se tenir jusqu’au 10 novembre. Près d’une centaine de médias, dont Le Monde, ont publié en réaction mercredi une lettre ouverte appelant les Français à se mobiliser en faveur de la liberté d’expression.
Le premier ministre, Jean Castex, qui s’est rendu sur les lieux avec le ministre de l’intérieur, Gérald Darmanin, a rappelé l’« attachement indéfectible » du gouvernement « à la liberté de la presse » et « sa volonté résolue par tous les moyens de lutter contre le terrorisme », précisant à propos des deux victimes que « leurs vies ne sont pas en danger, dieu merci ».
Un « auteur principal » a été interpellé par la police près de la place de la Bastille, a déclaré le procureur national antiterroriste, Jean-François Ricard. L’homme est né au Pakistan en 2002. Le ministre de l’intérieur a précisé, à l’antenne de France 2, que le suspect était arrivé en France il y a trois ans et bénéficiait, jusqu’à août dernier, du statut de mineur isolé. Le conseil départemental de l’Oise, qui avait pris en charge le jeune Pakistanais par l’aide sociale à l’enfance, a déclaré dans un communiqué qu’il ne présentait « aucun signe de radicalisation ». Une deuxième personne, un Algérien né en 1987, a été placée en garde à vue et des « vérifications » sont en cours sur ses « relations » avec le premier homme interpellé.
Cinq personnes supplémentaires ont été placées en garde à vue, vendredi, dans le cadre de l’enquête antiterroriste. Il s’agit de cinq hommes, âgés de 24 à 37 ans, interpellés à Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) au cours d’une perquisition à l’un des domiciles supposés du principal suspect de l’attaque.
La rue Nicolas-Appert a été bloquée au cours de l’après-midi. La préfecture invitait à « éviter le secteur » et six stations de métro ont été fermées au public par mesure de sécurité. Peu après 17 h 30, seul « un périmètre de sécurité réduit » restait en place près du lieu de l’attaque « pour les besoins de l’enquête », a tweeté le ministère de l’intérieur. Et seule la station de métro Richard-Lenoir demeurait fermée par la RATP.
Les crèches, les établissements scolaires de l’école au lycée et les établissements pour personnes âgées des 11e, 3e et 4e arrondissements ont été confinés, jusqu’à ce que la mairie de Paris annonce, vers 15 heures, un retour à la normale.
« Se battre contre le fascisme sous toutes ses formes »
Depuis la vague d’attentats djihadistes sans précédent amorcée en 2015 en France et qui a fait 258 morts, plusieurs ont été perpétrés à l’arme blanche, dont les attaques de la Préfecture de police de Paris en octobre 2019 ou celle de Romans-sur-Isère en avril dernier.
Vendredi, l’équipe de Charlie Hebdo a apporté dans un tweet « son soutien et sa solidarité à ses anciens voisins et confrères de Premières Lignes et aux personnes touchées par cette odieuse attaque ». Dans un édito « spécial web » publié en fin de journée, la rédaction appelle à « continuer à se battre pour nos idées et nos valeurs » contre « le fascisme sous toutes ses formes » :
« Cet épisode tragique démontre une fois de plus que le fanatisme, l’intolérance, dont l’enquête nous révélera les origines, sont toujours aussi présents dans la société française. Loin de nous terroriser, de tels événements doivent nous rendre encore plus combatifs dans la défense de nos valeurs. Il n’est pas question de céder quoi que ce soit à la logique mortifère et criminelle des idéologies qui motivent ces actes, et dont les penseurs, les concepteurs ne sont rien d’autre que des fascistes. »
« On est choqués, très choqués. J’étais là le 7 janvier [2015]. C’était au même endroit. J’ai eu l’impression de revivre la scène. Je n’ai pas de mots », a confié à l’AFP un journaliste de Premières Lignes.
« A travers ce lieu hautement symbolique, c’est une fois encore la liberté d’expression qui est visée », a tweeté la maire de Paris, Anne Hidalgo, condamnant « avec la plus grande fermeté l’ignoble attaque terroriste ». De l’étranger, le président du Conseil européen, Charles Michel, et le premier ministre italien, Giuseppe Conte, ont exprimé sur Twitter leur « solidarité avec le peuple français ».
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Two injured in stabbing attack near former "Charlie Hebdo" premises in Paris, main suspect arrested
The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office was seized, and an investigation was opened for "attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal terrorist association".
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters Posted today at 12:45 p.m., updated at 9:12 p.m.
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Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, in Paris, September 25.
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, in Paris, September 25. BENJAMIN GIRETTE FOR "THE WORLD"
A stabbing attack left two injured on Friday September 25 in Paris, near the former Charlie Hebdo premises in the 11th arrondissement, and the main suspect was arrested by police. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has been seized of an investigation for "attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise", entrusted to the criminal brigade and to the General Directorate of Internal Security.
Guest on the 8 pm newspaper on France 2, the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, considered that it was "clearly [an] act of Islamist terrorism". He also added: “This is the street where there was Charlie Hebdo, this is the modus operandi of the Islamist terrorists, of course, there is little doubt, this is another bloody attack on our country. "
The two injured are members of the Premiers Lines agency, whose building is located at 10, rue Nicolas-Appert, where the former Charlie Hebdo premises were located. They had already been helpless witnesses to the January 2015 attack. According to our information, the first victim, a woman, takes care of the reception, while the second victim is a production assistant within this structure. which provides services to a multitude of production companies.
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The facts would have taken place in the immediate vicinity of the street-art fresco produced in tribute to the victims of January 7, 2015. "This is where we smoke our cigarettes", explains a journalist, who had just completed his and had gone upstairs when he heard screams in the street. "It happened at around 11:45 am, a man came in and attacked two smoking employees in front of the building with a chopper," Paul Moreira, founder and co-director of Frontlines, told AFP. "The man and woman were both very seriously injured," he added.
"Some of our teams, present in the Bocode premises, were evacuated by the police after the fact", says Jacques Aragones, director of TV Presse Productions ("Exclusive investigation", "Special envoy", etc.). “They were assembled in the neighboring theater Comédie Bastille, where the witnesses were questioned by the police. Then, those who wanted to joined the town hall of the 11th arrondissement, where a psychological cell was set up, while the others returned to our premises, located a few meters away. "
A photo posted on social media shows a bloody chopper. A source close to the investigation confirmed to AFP that this was indeed the weapon used in the attack. The public prosecutor of Paris, Rémy Heitz, said in a statement released Friday evening that an investigation had been opened on the count of violation of the secrecy of the investigation "following the dissemination of various related photographs" with the investigations.
7 people in police custody, including the alleged perpetrator
This attack comes as the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo has come under new threats since the weekly republished cartoons of Muhammad on September 2, on the occasion of the opening of the trial of the January 2015 attacks, which is due to be held until November 10. Almost 100 media outlets, including Le Monde, published an open letter on Wednesday calling on the French to mobilize in favor of freedom of expression.
The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, who visited the scene with the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, recalled the “unwavering attachment” of the government “to freedom of the press” and “its resolve all the means to fight against terrorism ”, specifying about the two victims that“ their lives are not in danger, thank God ”.
A "principal perpetrator" was arrested by the police near the Place de la Bastille, declared the national anti-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard. The man was born in Pakistan in 2002. The Minister of the Interior specified, on the air of France 2, that the suspect had arrived in France three years ago and enjoyed, until last August, the status of isolated miner. The Oise County Council, which had taken the young Pakistani into care with child welfare, said in a statement that he showed "no sign of radicalization." A second person, an Algerian born
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The attack took place near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, which has recently republished cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, which are believed to have angered jihadists and sparked the killings in 2015.
Two people have been injured in a stabbing attack on Boulevard Richard Lenoir in Paris near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, the police confirmed to Sputnik on Friday. French anti-terror prosecutors have ordered an investigation into the case of "attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organisation and a criminal terrorist community."
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Video of French Police Descending Into Paris Streets Following Stabbing Attack Emerges Online
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told France 2 TV channel on Friday evening that the attack was "clearly an act of Islamist terrorism", but added that there was no proof that the main suspect had been radicalised.
Earlier in the day, French media reported that a man, armed with either a machete or a large knife, went on a stabbing spree in the area.
He attacked male and female employees of the Premieres Lignes news agency as they were having a cigarette break, injuring them on the upper body, according to the founder and co-head of the company, Paul Moreira. One of the journalists received a wound to their head.
The police initially said they were not planning to conduct any further arrests, despite reports in French media suggesting that there was another suspect in the incident. However, minutes later the police arrested another suspect, French prosecutors confirmed. He is reported to be an ethnically Algerian 33-year-old man, according to a police source, cited by Reuters. While his role in the attack is still investigated, the suspect is said to have been spotted with the attacker in the metro.
Hours after the attack, BMF TV reported that five more people were detained in connection with the stabbing spree.
Both the police and the French Prime Minister Jean Castex initially said there were four wounded in the incident, but they revised the number later to two injured, without providing the explanation for the discrepancy.
According to media reports, French President Emmanuel Macron is closely following updates on the attack.
Charlie Hebdo Attack
The incident took place near the Charlie Hebdo building that was the scene of a terrorist attack in 2015 in which twelve died. The terrorists, angered by the magazine's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, also killed a police officer the next day and another four people in a Hypercacher store on 9 January.
The publisher has recently reprinted the cartoons on the eve of the trial of 14 suspects accused of helping carry out the attacks.
The trial kicked off at the beginning of September and is due to last two months, after having been postponed over the COVID-19 pandemic. The court is looking into the roles of 14 defendants, three of whom are being tried in absentia, in organising the three-day series of killings that rocked France back in January 2015.
Anti-Terror Prosecutors Join Probe Into Stabbing Attack Near Charlie Hebdo’s Former HQ in Paris
The attack took place near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, which has recently republished cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, which are believed to have angered jihadists and sparked the killings in 2015.
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The attack took place near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, which has recently republished cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, which are believed to have angered jihadists and sparked the killings in 2015.
Two people have been injured in a stabbing attack on Boulevard Richard Lenoir in Paris near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, the police confirmed to Sputnik on Friday. French anti-terror prosecutors have ordered an investigation into the case of "attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organisation and a criminal terrorist community."
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Video of French Police Descending Into Paris Streets Following Stabbing Attack Emerges Online
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told France 2 TV channel on Friday evening that the attack was "clearly an act of Islamist terrorism", but added that there was no proof that the main suspect had been radicalised.
Earlier in the day, French media reported that a man, armed with either a machete or a large knife, went on a stabbing spree in the area.
He attacked male and female employees of the Premieres Lignes news agency as they were having a cigarette break, injuring them on the upper body, according to the founder and co-head of the company, Paul Moreira. One of the journalists received a wound to their head.
The security forces arrested a man who corresponded to the description of the attacker given by victims and witnesses on the steps of the Bastille Opera. According to France's Radio Europe 1, the detainee was an 18-year-old man of Pakistani origin. He confessed his crime to the police, BFMTV said citing anonymous sources.
The police initially said they were not planning to conduct any further arrests, despite reports in French media suggesting that there was another suspect in the incident. However, minutes later the police arrested another suspect, French prosecutors confirmed. He is reported to be an ethnically Algerian 33-year-old man, according to a police source, cited by Reuters. While his role in the attack is still investigated, the suspect is said to have been spotted with the attacker in the metro.
Hours after the attack, BMF TV reported that five more people were detained in connection with the stabbing spree.
Both the police and the French Prime Minister Jean Castex initially said there were four wounded in the incident, but they revised the number later to two injured, without providing the explanation for the discrepancy.
According to media reports, French President Emmanuel Macron is closely following updates on the attack.
Charlie Hebdo Attack
The incident took place near the Charlie Hebdo building that was the scene of a terrorist attack in 2015 in which twelve died. The terrorists, angered by the magazine's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, also killed a police officer the next day and another four people in a Hypercacher store on 9 January.
The publisher has recently reprinted the cartoons on the eve of the trial of 14 suspects accused of helping carry out the attacks.
The trial kicked off at the beginning of September and is due to last two months, after having been postponed over the COVID-19 pandemic. The court is looking into the roles of 14 defendants, three of whom are being tried in absentia, in organising the three-day series of killings that rocked France back in January 2015.
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Two people are stabbed near former offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris
Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said the man - named as Ali - arrived in France three years ago as a minor, apparently from Pakistan, but his identity was still being verified.
Pictured: Moment 18-year-old terror suspect is arrested after two journalists are stabbed with a meat cleaver near Charlie Hebdo's old offices in Paris
- A man and a woman were seriously wounded with a meat cleaver in Paris today
- The attack took place near the site of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror rampage
- Two men have been arrested including an 18-year-old Pakistani 'main attacker'
- Suspected accomplices in Charlie Hebdo attack are currently on trial in Paris
- Terror police have taken up the case because of location and timing during trial
Published: 06:45 EDT, 25 September 2020 | Updated: 14:16 EDT, 25 September 2020
A terror probe is underway in Paris after two journalists were stabbed in broad daylight today near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo.
A man and a woman were seriously wounded after being attacked with a meat cleaver while out for a cigarette break, although both are expected to survive.
Police have arrested two men - a 'main perpetrator' and another suspect - after one was spotted with blood dripping from his clothes near the Opera Bastille and another was stopped at a Metro station.
The main suspect is said to be an 18-year-old Pakistani national called Ali, who is known to the police, while the second man was described as a 33-year-old Algerian.
Dramatic pictures showed Ali, who had arrived in France as a minor claiming political asylum, crouching on the floor in a yellow Manchester City top and tracksuit bottoms.
Undercover officers, identified by their orange arm bands, stood over the suspect before he was taken to a high security police station in the French capital.
Terror police have taken up the case, and French prosecutors suspect an extremist motive because of the place and timing of the stabbings - near the former Charlie Hebdo premises during a trial relating to the 2015 massacre.
The victims work for Premieres Lignes, a French news and video agency whose staff rushed to help Charlie Hebdo survivors after the rampage which killed 12 people.
Fourteen suspects are currently on trial for allegedly helping to plot the Islamist attack, with proceedings suspended today in the wake of the latest violence.
Charlie Hebdo, which now produces its magazine from a secret location, recently re-published the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed which had provoked outrage in the Muslim world.
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Under arrest: A suspect is detained in Paris today after two people were injured in an attack near the former Charlie Hebdo offices which is being treated as possible terrorism
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One of the stabbing victims is treated after the meat cleaver attack near Charlie Hebdo's former offices in Paris today. Both victims are expected to survive
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French firefighters move an injured person to an ambulance after two people were stabbed close to the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
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The meat cleaver used in the attack is left on the ground in Paris after two people were stabbed
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Forensic experts work at the scene after the rampage which has left two in a criticial condition
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Two men have been arrested after they were spotted with blood on their clothes near the attack
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Two of the victims have been confirmed as a man and a woman who are employees of Premieres Lignes, a French news and video agency
One suspected attacker was arrested on the steps of the Bastille Opera after witnesses spotted blood dripping from his clothes, said an investigating source.
'He was arrested within minutes by police, and then a second man was arrested on a Metro train because of suspicions that he may be connected with the attack,' they said.
Paris prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said a 'main perpetrator' had been arrested along with a 'second suspect', adding the main attacker did not know the people who were stabbed.
One witness at the Bastille Plaza, Kader Alfa, said he 'saw a guy that was in his 30s or 40s with an axe in his hand who was walking behind a victim covered in blood'.
Both suspects were taken to a high-security police station in central Paris, where they were being questioned on Friday afternoon.
Neither of the men have been identified, but the main perpetrator is said to be 18 years old, a Pakistani national and known to the police for weapons offences.
The second suspect was described in French media as a 33-year-old Algerian but it was unclear whether or how they were connected.
The attack is being investigated by specialist anti-terror prosecutors who have opened a probe into charges of 'attempted murder related to terrorism' and 'conspiracy with terrorists.'
French PM Jean Castex initially said four people were injured, but the Paris prosecutor later clarified there were two victims.
The pair work in the production team for the company which has released a number of documentaries and previously won a Pulitzer Prize for work on the Panama Papers investigation.
The prime minister noted the 'symbolic site' of the attack, 'at the very moment where the trial into the atrocious acts against Charlie Hebdo is under way.'
The PM, who attended the scene with Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, added the lives of the two victims 'are not in danger, thank God.'
One police source said a machete had been found at the scene. Another police source said a meat cleaver had been found there.
The two people are in 'an extremely bad way', said an investigating source, although their lives are not thought to be in danger.
'Two colleagues were smoking cigarettes in the street. I heard screams. I went to the window and saw a colleague, bloodied, being chased by a man with a machete,' added another employee, who asked not to be named.
'I saw a second neighbour on the floor and I went to help.' A witness from the production company said she saw the attack being carried out.
She said: 'Two colleagues were smoking a cigarette at the bottom of the building. I heard screams and went to the window and saw one of my colleagues stained with blood, being followed by a man with a machete on the street.'
Premieres Lignes founder Paul Moreira told BFM television that the attacker fled into the metro, and the company's staff members were evacuated.
It is unclear what motivated the attack or whether it had any link to Charlie Hebdo, which moved offices after they were attacked by Islamic extremists in 2015.
The trial has heard that the attackers sought to avenge the Prophet Mohammad, nearly a decade after the magazine published cartoons mocking him.
In a Twitter post today, Charlie Hebdo expressed its 'support and solidarity with its former neighbours... and the people affected by this odious attack.'
Forensics cordon off scene of stabbing near former Charlie Hebdo HQ
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French firefighters move an injured person to an ambulance after two people were stabbed close to the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
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French soldiers rush to the scene after people were injured following the attack by a man wielding a knife
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Witnesses said two of the victims were having a cigarette break outside their office when the attack took place
Witness Hassani Erwan, 23, told AFP: 'At around midday, we went to have lunch at a restaurant but as we were arriving, the owner started to cry 'leave, leave, there's an attack!'
'We immediately ran away and locked ourselves ourselves inside a shop with four other customers.'
A person who lives on the street told Le Parisien: 'It's starting again, the same fear there was five years ago, the same images in the street, it's heart-breaking.'
Police earlier warned there was 'extreme concern' that those responsible for the stabbings might strike again before the 'main attacker' was arrested.
Local schools in the 3rd, 4th and 11th arrondissements have been shut down, and people are being advised to stay in their offices and homes.
Valérie Pécresse, president of the Ile-de-France region of Paris, said: 'Extremely shocked by the murderous attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo, in a Paris arrondissement which has already paid a heavy price for violent terrorism.
'I give all my support to the authorities which are now tracking the perpetrator.'
Murmurs broke at the terrorism trial as the news of Friday's filtered through to the courtroom.
Charlie Hebdo now publishes from a secret address in Paris, and many staff members have bodyguards.
Moreira, the production company founder, described today how Premieres Lignes had been on the front line of the 2015 massacre.
'We were there during the Charlie Hebdo attack. We were among the first to enter the room, we had helped the survivors.
'We note that there is now the trial of the January 2015 attacks, and that it is the same building. There are people who think that it is still the premises of Charlie Hebdo.'
Following the attacks in 2015, Premieres Lignes staff member Edouard Perrin said they barricaded the entrance to their own offices, and put bulletproof vests on.
'We took refuge on the roof,' said Mr Perrin. 'This is when I start filming on my laptop. There was an exchange of fire between the police and the terrorists coming out of the building. 'Bullets were whistling above our heads. In all, about fifty were shot, and I filmed the last ten shots.
'My fear was that they would see us, come back and finish us. We are journalists and, for them, we are not just civilians.'
Police cordon off scene of knife attack near former Charlie Hebdo HQ
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Charlie Hebdo (former offices pictured) now publishes from a secret address in Paris, and many staff members have bodyguards
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Police said there was 'extreme concern' today that those responsible for the stabbings might strike again
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Local schools in the 3rd, 4th and 11th arrondissements have been shut down, and people are being advised to stay in their offices and homes
It comes as a trial takes place in the French capital concerned with the January 2015 attacks that shocked the world after 12 people died.
Their primary targets were staff at the satirical magazine which had published a series of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
The principal terrorists – who were all known to the French security services – were all gunned down by police themselves, but 14 defendants are currently on trial facing life in prison for 'complicity in terrorism'.
Friday's attack took place close to the old Charlie Hebdo offices, which were attacked by Paris-born brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in 2015.
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An armed police officer stands at the scene of the horrific stabbings as two fight for their lives after the attack
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A large police presence was seen immediately after the stabbings as schools and the Metro were shut down
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Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo visited the knife attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo
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Two of the victims have been confirmed as a man and a women who are employees of Premieres Lignes, a French news and video agency
It marked the opening of the criminal trial by re-publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
Critics said the publication had deliberately used blasphemy to stir up hatred against Muslims around the world.
The deeply incendiary images originally led to riots across the Muslim world when they were first published in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005.
Charlie Hebdo then published them in full in 2006, leading its writers and cartoonists to receive regular death threats.
This led up to the atrocities of 2015, when the Kouachis stormed into their offices and opened fire.
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Police and emergency vehicles are pictured at the scene after the gun rampage at the Charlie Hebdo offices in 2015 which left 12 people dead
Despite this, the latest Charlie Hebdo carries the cartoons on its front page, under the headline 'All that for that'.
The landmark trial has seen defendants facing a variety of charges including obtaining weapons and providing logistical support to the killers.
Three of the accused are being tried in absentia, as it is believed they went to fight for Islamic State in Syria.
The Kouachi brothers died during a shootout with police at a printing office northwest of Paris two days after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Those currently on trial range in age from 29 to 68, and are charged with providing logistics to the terrorists, including cash, weapons and vehicles.
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The Kouachi brothers, Cherif (left) and Said (right), entered Charlie Hebdo's premises and carried out the brutal attack five years ago
Among three defendants being tried in their absence is Hayat Boumeddienne, 32, who is known as 'France's Most Wanted Woman' .
She is also said to have provided logistical support to the three Islamist killers, one of whom was her boyfriend, 32-year-old Amédy.
Coulibaly gunned down four shoppers in a kosher supermarket and a policewoman during the three days of carnage.
Boumeddienne, a self-styled ISIS fanatic, is still on the run, and was last said to have been spotted in a Syrian refugee camp last year.
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This court sketch shows the fourteen accused and their lawyers at the opening of the trial of the accomplices in jihadist killings in 2015
'A warrant is out for her arrest,' said a prosecuting source. 'It has been claimed that she is dead, but intelligence placed her in the town of Al-Hawl in the summer of 2019.
'The camp is made up of thousands of women and children, including many dislodged from the ISIS caliphate.'
Boumeddienne's DNA was found on guns being stored by Coulibaly, while prosecutors say she also made more than 500 phone calls to the home of Cherif Kouachi in the run-up to the attacks.
She gave an interview to an ISIS propaganda outlet in late 2015, saying: 'May France be cursed by Allah'.
Two other key defendants in the Paris trial are Mohamed and Mehdi Belhoucine –brothers who left for the Iraqi-Syrian war zone shortly after the Hebdo attacks, and who are now presumed dead.
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A message of solidarity with Charlie Hebdo - containing the popular slogan 'je suis Charlie' (meaning 'I am Charlie') - is laid out in Paris after the attack in 2015
Both ISIS and Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the 2015 attacks, which were the beginning of a wave of terrorism across France.
Another defendant is Willy Prévost, a close friend of Coulibaly, who is said to have provided vehicles including a car.
The others on trial are Nezar Mickael, Pastor Alwatik, Amar Ramdan, Said Makhlouf, Mohamed-Amine Fares, Michel Catino, Abdelaziz Abbad, Miguel Martinez and Metin Karasular.
All are accused of providing varying levels of support to the Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly.
The trial is being presided over by five specialised terrorism magistrates, headed by Judge Régis de Jorna.
The entire process will be filmed so that a record can be placed in France's National Archive, but the images will not be broadcast live.
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Charlie Hebdo (former offices pictured) now publishes from a secret address in Paris, and many staff members have bodyguards
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Police said there was 'extreme concern' today that those responsible for the stabbings might strike again
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Local schools in the 3rd, 4th and 11th arrondissements have been shut down, and people are being advised to stay in their offices and homes
It comes as a trial takes place in the French capital concerned with the January 2015 attacks that shocked the world after 12 people died.
Their primary targets were staff at the satirical magazine which had published a series of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
The principal terrorists – who were all known to the French security services – were all gunned down by police themselves, but 14 defendants are currently on trial facing life in prison for 'complicity in terrorism'.
Friday's attack took place close to the old Charlie Hebdo offices, which were attacked by Paris-born brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in 2015.
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An armed police officer stands at the scene of the horrific stabbings as two fight for their lives after the attack
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A large police presence was seen immediately after the stabbings as schools and the Metro were shut down
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Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo visited the knife attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo
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Two of the victims have been confirmed as a man and a women who are employees of Premieres Lignes, a French news and video agency
It marked the opening of the criminal trial by re-publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
Critics said the publication had deliberately used blasphemy to stir up hatred against Muslims around the world.
The deeply incendiary images originally led to riots across the Muslim world when they were first published in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005.
Charlie Hebdo then published them in full in 2006, leading its writers and cartoonists to receive regular death threats.
This led up to the atrocities of 2015, when the Kouachis stormed into their offices and opened fire.
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Police and emergency vehicles are pictured at the scene after the gun rampage at the Charlie Hebdo offices in 2015 which left 12 people dead
Despite this, the latest Charlie Hebdo carries the cartoons on its front page, under the headline 'All that for that'.
The landmark trial has seen defendants facing a variety of charges including obtaining weapons and providing logistical support to the killers.
Three of the accused are being tried in absentia, as it is believed they went to fight for Islamic State in Syria.
The Kouachi brothers died during a shootout with police at a printing office northwest of Paris two days after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Those currently on trial range in age from 29 to 68, and are charged with providing logistics to the terrorists, including cash, weapons and vehicles.
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The Kouachi brothers, Cherif (left) and Said (right), entered Charlie Hebdo's premises and carried out the brutal attack five years ago
Among three defendants being tried in their absence is Hayat Boumeddienne, 32, who is known as 'France's Most Wanted Woman' .
She is also said to have provided logistical support to the three Islamist killers, one of whom was her boyfriend, 32-year-old Amédy.
Coulibaly gunned down four shoppers in a kosher supermarket and a policewoman during the three days of carnage.
Boumeddienne, a self-styled ISIS fanatic, is still on the run, and was last said to have been spotted in a Syrian refugee camp last year.
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This court sketch shows the fourteen accused and their lawyers at the opening of the trial of the accomplices in jihadist killings in 2015
'A warrant is out for her arrest,' said a prosecuting source. 'It has been claimed that she is dead, but intelligence placed her in the town of Al-Hawl in the summer of 2019.
'The camp is made up of thousands of women and children, including many dislodged from the ISIS caliphate.'
Boumeddienne's DNA was found on guns being stored by Coulibaly, while prosecutors say she also made more than 500 phone calls to the home of Cherif Kouachi in the run-up to the attacks.
She gave an interview to an ISIS propaganda outlet in late 2015, saying: 'May France be cursed by Allah'.
Two other key defendants in the Paris trial are Mohamed and Mehdi Belhoucine –brothers who left for the Iraqi-Syrian war zone shortly after the Hebdo attacks, and who are now presumed dead.
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A message of solidarity with Charlie Hebdo - containing the popular slogan 'je suis Charlie' (meaning 'I am Charlie') - is laid out in Paris after the attack in 2015
Both ISIS and Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the 2015 attacks, which were the beginning of a wave of terrorism across France.
Another defendant is Willy Prévost, a close friend of Coulibaly, who is said to have provided vehicles including a car.
The others on trial are Nezar Mickael, Pastor Alwatik, Amar Ramdan, Said Makhlouf, Mohamed-Amine Fares, Michel Catino, Abdelaziz Abbad, Miguel Martinez and Metin Karasular.
All are accused of providing varying levels of support to the Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly.
The trial is being presided over by five specialised terrorism magistrates, headed by Judge Régis de Jorna.
The entire process will be filmed so that a record can be placed in France's National Archive, but the images will not be broadcast live.
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passin' thru
This morning there were reports of 3-5 folks stabbed near the newspaper office. I forget the details, or if this was a significant date re: that previous case, or more likely to be just another case of "a good day to be a muslim and stab people" thing.
You may want to respell your Paris in the title while you're within the 24 hr period. . . I of course do not care, but. . .
You may want to respell your Paris in the title while you're within the 24 hr period. . . I of course do not care, but. . .
Macgyver
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You may want to respell your Paris in the title while you're within the 24 hr period. . . I of course do not care, but. . .
Done. Haha
Plain Jane
Just Plain Jane
Paris is going to have a very long two months with this trial. And the of course there is the verdict.
Ragnarok
On and On, South of Heaven
You have to push harder
No surprise there......
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Paris stabbing suspect wasn’t on police radar, minister says
By ELAINE GANLEY and OLEG CETINIC
2 hours ago
PARIS (AP) — A young man stabbed two people Friday outside the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where 12 people were killed in 2015, and a terrorism investigation has been opened into the new attack, authorities said.
The suspected assailant had been arrested a month ago for carrying a screwdriver but was not on police radar for Islamic radicalization, France’s interior minister said. He said the screwdriver was considered a weapon, but did not explain why.
Two people were wounded in Friday’s attack, and two suspects were arrested, although the links between the two suspects weren’t immediately clear. The main suspect, a young man with speckles of blood on his forehead and wearing orange gym shoes, was arrested on the steps of the Bastille Opera in eastern Paris, authorities said. The site is not far from where Friday’s attack took place, outside the building where the weekly Charlie Hebdo was located before the 2015 attack.
The interior minister said the assailant arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, apparently from Pakistan, but his identity was still being verified.
“Manifestly it’s an act of Islamist terrorism,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in an interview with public broadcaster France-2. “Obviously, there is little doubt. It’s a new bloody attack against our country, against journalists, against this society.”
France’s counterterrorism prosecutor said earlier that authorities suspect a terrorist motive because of the place and timing of the stabbings: in front of the building where Charlie Hebdo was based until the Islamic extremist attack on its cartoonists, and at a time when suspects in the 2015 attack are on trial across town.
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.
An investigation was opened into “attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise,” according to the terrorism prosecutor’s office.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex said the lives of the two wounded workers lives were not in danger. He offered the government’s solidarity with their families and colleagues.
The prime minister noted the “symbolic site” of the attack, “at the very moment where the trial into the atrocious acts against Charlie Hebdo is under way.” He promised the government’s “unfailing attachment to freedom of the press, and its determination to fight terrorism.”
People in the neighborhood were stunned, saying on French TV that they were reliving the nightmare of the newsroom massacre.
In a tweet, Charlie Hebdo strongly condemned the stabbings.
“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. He told France’s BFM television that the attacker fled into the subway, and the company’s staff members were evacuated.
Moreira said a man in the street “attacked two people who were in front of the building, didn’t enter the building, and who attacked them with an axe and who left.” He said the company had not received any threats.
His colleague, Luc Hermann, describing witnesses’ version of the attack, said the assailant first struck the woman in her face, then the man, before returning to attack the woman again.
“The whole team ... took refuge on the roof of the building like our team did five years ago during the attack of Charlie Hebdo,” he said on France-2.
He said it was “incomprehensible” that authorities had not taken special security precautions particularly at this time.
A wrenching, two-month trial in the Charlie Hebdo attacks is currently unfolding at the main Paris courthouse. Murmurs broke at the terrorism trial of 14 people, including 3 fugitives, accused of helping the attackers in the January 2015 killings, as the news filtered through.
The widows of the two brothers who forced their way into the newspaper’s offices and opened fire at a morning editorial meeting testified Friday.
Caty Richard, a lawyer for the Charlie Hebdo journalists, heard about the knife attack in the midst of the trial.
“My first thought was this will never end,” she said. “I am devastated, angry.”
The interior minister conceded that security was lacking on the street where Charlie Hebdo was once headquartered. He said that 775 police protect its new location.
But “there was an attack so we could have done better,” he said. The minister said he has ordered special protection for all “symbolic sites,” noting in particular Jewish sites ahead of the Yom Kippur holiday this weekend. A Jewish grocery store was targeted days after the Charlie Hebdo newsroom massacre in what authorities say were coordinated attacks.
Charlie Hebdo recently reproduced caricatures of the Muslim prophet that stoked the ire of some Muslims when first produced.
Associated Press reporters at the scene saw police flood the neighborhood in eastern Paris near the Richard Lenoir subway station, which remained cordoned off for hours. Children were sequestered in nine schools while police scoured the area, but were later released, according to the Paris school district.
Witness Kader Alfa told The AP at the scene: “I saw a guy that was in his 30s or 40s with an axe in his hand who was walking behind a victim covered in blood.”
Police initially announced that four people were wounded in the attack, but a police official told The AP that there were in fact only two confirmed wounded. Police could not explain the discrepancy.
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Associated Press writers Angela Charlton and Lori Hinnant contributed to this report.
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Paris stabbing suspect wasn't on police radar, minister says
French authorities say a terrorism investigation has been opened into a knife attack that wounded two people outside the former Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
apnews.com
Paris stabbing suspect wasn’t on police radar, minister says
By ELAINE GANLEY and OLEG CETINIC
2 hours ago
PARIS (AP) — A young man stabbed two people Friday outside the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where 12 people were killed in 2015, and a terrorism investigation has been opened into the new attack, authorities said.
The suspected assailant had been arrested a month ago for carrying a screwdriver but was not on police radar for Islamic radicalization, France’s interior minister said. He said the screwdriver was considered a weapon, but did not explain why.
Two people were wounded in Friday’s attack, and two suspects were arrested, although the links between the two suspects weren’t immediately clear. The main suspect, a young man with speckles of blood on his forehead and wearing orange gym shoes, was arrested on the steps of the Bastille Opera in eastern Paris, authorities said. The site is not far from where Friday’s attack took place, outside the building where the weekly Charlie Hebdo was located before the 2015 attack.
The interior minister said the assailant arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, apparently from Pakistan, but his identity was still being verified.
“Manifestly it’s an act of Islamist terrorism,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in an interview with public broadcaster France-2. “Obviously, there is little doubt. It’s a new bloody attack against our country, against journalists, against this society.”
France’s counterterrorism prosecutor said earlier that authorities suspect a terrorist motive because of the place and timing of the stabbings: in front of the building where Charlie Hebdo was based until the Islamic extremist attack on its cartoonists, and at a time when suspects in the 2015 attack are on trial across town.
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.
An investigation was opened into “attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise,” according to the terrorism prosecutor’s office.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex said the lives of the two wounded workers lives were not in danger. He offered the government’s solidarity with their families and colleagues.
The prime minister noted the “symbolic site” of the attack, “at the very moment where the trial into the atrocious acts against Charlie Hebdo is under way.” He promised the government’s “unfailing attachment to freedom of the press, and its determination to fight terrorism.”
People in the neighborhood were stunned, saying on French TV that they were reliving the nightmare of the newsroom massacre.
In a tweet, Charlie Hebdo strongly condemned the stabbings.
“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. He told France’s BFM television that the attacker fled into the subway, and the company’s staff members were evacuated.
Moreira said a man in the street “attacked two people who were in front of the building, didn’t enter the building, and who attacked them with an axe and who left.” He said the company had not received any threats.
His colleague, Luc Hermann, describing witnesses’ version of the attack, said the assailant first struck the woman in her face, then the man, before returning to attack the woman again.
“The whole team ... took refuge on the roof of the building like our team did five years ago during the attack of Charlie Hebdo,” he said on France-2.
He said it was “incomprehensible” that authorities had not taken special security precautions particularly at this time.
A wrenching, two-month trial in the Charlie Hebdo attacks is currently unfolding at the main Paris courthouse. Murmurs broke at the terrorism trial of 14 people, including 3 fugitives, accused of helping the attackers in the January 2015 killings, as the news filtered through.
The widows of the two brothers who forced their way into the newspaper’s offices and opened fire at a morning editorial meeting testified Friday.
Caty Richard, a lawyer for the Charlie Hebdo journalists, heard about the knife attack in the midst of the trial.
“My first thought was this will never end,” she said. “I am devastated, angry.”
The interior minister conceded that security was lacking on the street where Charlie Hebdo was once headquartered. He said that 775 police protect its new location.
But “there was an attack so we could have done better,” he said. The minister said he has ordered special protection for all “symbolic sites,” noting in particular Jewish sites ahead of the Yom Kippur holiday this weekend. A Jewish grocery store was targeted days after the Charlie Hebdo newsroom massacre in what authorities say were coordinated attacks.
Charlie Hebdo recently reproduced caricatures of the Muslim prophet that stoked the ire of some Muslims when first produced.
Associated Press reporters at the scene saw police flood the neighborhood in eastern Paris near the Richard Lenoir subway station, which remained cordoned off for hours. Children were sequestered in nine schools while police scoured the area, but were later released, according to the Paris school district.
Witness Kader Alfa told The AP at the scene: “I saw a guy that was in his 30s or 40s with an axe in his hand who was walking behind a victim covered in blood.”
Police initially announced that four people were wounded in the attack, but a police official told The AP that there were in fact only two confirmed wounded. Police could not explain the discrepancy.
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Associated Press writers Angela Charlton and Lori Hinnant contributed to this report.
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The cleaver shown does have a bit of a point. I had the same thought. My cleaver is square. No way to stab with it.