Cincunri Sakia: Paris Attack: Terror probe as suspect arrested for stabbing journalists with meat cleaver

Jumat, 25 September 2020

Paris Attack: Terror probe as suspect arrested for stabbing journalists with meat cleaver - Metro.co.uk

A terror probe is underway as the attack was outside Charlie Hebdo’s former offices (Picture; AP/AFP)

These images show a journalist lying bleeding on the ground after being stabbed with a meat cleaver, while a suspect is detained by police close to the scene.

A man and a woman were seriously wounded after being attacked during a cigarette break outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo, but they are both expected to survive.

Police have arrested a ‘main perpetrator’ along with another suspect. One was stopped at a Metro station while the other was seen dripping with blood near the Opera Bastille.

Investigators have launched a terror probe because the attack was outside the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine, where extremists massacred 12 people in 2015.

Currently 14 suspects are on trial for helping to plot the Islamist attack, launched after the publication printed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Court proceedings have been suspended in the wake of the attack.

The two victims of today’s assault work for French news agency and documentary film company Premieres Lignes, whose staff ran to help survivors from Charlie Hebdo, which now operates at a secret location.

A man is tended to after being injured in a knife attack in Paris, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. French terrorism authorities are investigating the knife attack that wounded at least two people Friday near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, authorities said. A suspect has been arrested. (David Cohen via AP) — A man lies injured on the floor after being attacked with a meat cleaver (Picture: AP)

A meat cleaver that was use in a knife attack is left on the ground in Paris, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. French terrorism authorities are investigating the knife attack that wounded at least two people Friday near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, authorities said. A suspect has been arrested. (David Cohen via AP) — The weapon used in the attack pictured on the pavement (Picture: AP)

epa08696152 People are evacuated near Rue Nicolas Appert close to the former Charlie Hebdo offices, in Rue Nicolas Appert in Paris, France, 25 September 2020, after four people have been wounded in knife attack. According to recent reports, one assailant has been arrested in the Bastille area. EPA/IAN LANGSDON — People were evacuated near Rue Nicolas Appert, close to the former Charlie Hebdo offices (Picture: EPA)

French Prime Minister Jean Castex commented on the ‘symbolic site’ of the attack ‘at the very moment where the trial into the atrocious acts against Charlie Hebdo is underway’.

He spoke of the government’s ‘unfailing attachment to freedom of the press, and its determination to fight terrorism’.

Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said the chief suspect in Friday’s stabbings was arrested, along with another person. He said the assailant did not know the people who were stabbed.

Premieres Lignes founder Paul Moreira said the attacker fled into the subway while his company’s staff were evacuated.

He told BFM television a man in the street ‘attacked two people who were in front of the building’ with ‘an axe’ but didn’t come inside. He said the company had not received any threats.

This grab taken from a video obtained by AFP shows French police detaining an alleged suspect after several people were injured near the former offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following an attack by a man wielding a knife in Paris on September 25, 2020. — Police detain a suspect about 800 metres from the scene of the attack (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Police at the scene of a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Friday Sept. 25, 2020 in Paris. — Police swarmed the scene and cordoned off the area in the aftermath of the attack (Picture: AP)

Security forces guard the scene of an incident near the former offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, France September 25, 2020. — Charlie Hebdo now operates in a secret location following the 2015 massacre (Picture: Reuters)

Speaking from the Bastille Plaza, witness Kader Alfa said: ‘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.’

Both suspects have been taken to a high-security police station in central Paris for questioning.

They are yet to be identified, but one is said to be an 18-year-old Pakistani national known to police for previous weapons offences.

Reporters at the scene saw police flood the neighbourhood in eastern Paris near the Richard Lenoir metro station, which remained shut for hours.

Police cordoned off the area, including the former Charlie Hebdo offices, after a suspect package was noticed nearby.

French soldiers patrol the streets after today’s knife attack (Picture: AP)

Members of the Paris Fire Brigade are seen at the scene of an incident near the former offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, France September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes — French Prime Minister Jean Castex remarked on the symbolism of the location, while the Charlie Hebdo terror trial was underway (Picture: Reuters)

A police officer is seen at the scene of an incident near the former offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, France September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes — Armed police put the area on lockdown while pupils in nine schools were told to stay inside (Picture: Reuters)

However, the package was found to be harmless and no explosives were found, according a police official.

Children were kept inside nine nearby schools while officers swept the area but were later allowed to go home.

Police initially announced four people were hurt in the attack but a police official later said there were in fact only two confirmed wounded.

Murmurs broke out at the Charlie Hebdo trial as the news filtered through about today’s attack.

The widows of the terrorists are scheduled to give evidence on Friday afternoon.

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