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2020-09-27 Europe
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Paris cleaver attack suspect says wanted to target Charlie Hebdo
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| ...but the stupid Lion of Islam missed his target. |
[AlAhram] A Pakistain-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Gay Paree offices of Charlie Hebdo
... A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
magazine, Sherlocks said Saturday, with nine people now detained over what the government condemned as "Islamist terror".
The 18-year-old
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...the only part of his name we know being Ali... said he wanted to avenge the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed by the satirical weekly, which in January 2015 was targeted in a massacre carried out by Islamist button men.
The attack on Friday came three weeks into a trial in Gay Paree of suspected accomplices in the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo, a policewoman and a Jewish supermarket that left 17 people dead.
While the man is believed to have carried out the stabbings alone, eight other people are now also under arrest following two more detentions Saturday.
The two new individuals arrested were the suspect's younger brother and another acquaintance, a judicial source said.
The man, who said he was born in Pakistain and is 18, "takes responsibility for his action," a source close to the investigation said.
Well, yes. But the point isn’t to be proud of it... The man said during questioning he places his actions "in the context of the republication of cartoons" of the Prophet Mohammed in Charlie Hebdo on the eve of the trial opening.
CHARLIE HEBDO TARGETED
The people maimed were employees of prize-winning TV production agency Premieres Lignes, whose offices are in the same block in central Gay Paree that used to house Charlie Hebdo.
However it is not believed that the two, who had stepped out onto the street for a cigarette break, were specifically targeted.
The man mistakenly believed Charlie Hebdo's offices were still in that building and wanted to attack journalists from the magazine, a source close to the inquiry told AFP, confirming information first published in the Le Gay Pareeien newspaper.
Charlie Hebdo moved offices after the 2015 attack and its current address is kept secret for security reasons.
The two victims were badly maimed but their lives are not in danger.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Friday the attack was "clearly an act of Islamist terrorism". Anti-terror prosecutors have opened an investigation.
Five of the individuals detained were in an apartment in Pantin in the northern Gay Paree suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, the last presumed address of the suspected attacker.
Police also late Friday released another man who was close to the scene of the attack but who was confirmed to have been a witness who had "chased the assailant", a judicial source said.
The unnamed Algerian, age 33, one presumes. The young man, who arrived from Pakistain three years ago, was believed to have last lived in a small flat in a four-storey building in the district.
"He was very polite. I often saw him sitting on the landing with his telephone. He helped me carry my groceries," said one neighbour, who identified herself as Josiane.
'COULD HAVE DONE BETTER'
Prime Minister Jean Castex on Saturday hailed the "efficiency" of the security forces following the attack during a visit to police headquarters, and said the "enemies of the Republic will never win".
Twelve people, including some of La Belle France's most celebrated cartoonists, were killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices by Islamist button men on January 7, 2015.
Charlie Hebdo angered many Moslems around the world by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2006, and in a defiant gesture reprinted some of the caricatures ahead of the trial.
In court are 14 alleged accomplices of brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, the perpetrators of the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo that was claimed by a branch of al-Qaeda.
A female police officer was killed a day later, followed the next day by the killing of four men in a hostage-taking at a Jewish supermarket by gunman Amedy Coulibaly.
The trial has reopened one of the most painful chapters in La Belle France's modern history, with harrowing testimony from survivors and relatives of those who died.
The magazine received fresh threats from al-Qaeda this month after it republished the controversial cartoons.
More than 100 French news outlets on Wednesday called for continuing support for Charlie Hebdo against what they described as the "enemies of freedom".
President Emmanuel Macron's centrist government has in recent weeks begun using increasingly tough rhetoric on domestic security issues in what analysts see as a shift to the right.
Darmanin admitted that the risk of an attack around the former offices had been "underestimated" and said he had asked for an explanation from the police.
"There was an attack, when there was an attack, it is obvious that we could have done better", he said.
Child welfare authorities said the suspect had shown "no sign of radicalisation" while under their care after arriving in La Belle France in August 2018 and claiming to be a minor.
The suspect was arrested in June for possession of a stabbing weapon, a source close to the case said. 
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