A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, according to investigators.
A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators said Saturday, with nine people now detained over what the government condemned as"Islamist terrorism".
A., who said he was born in the Pakistani city of Mandi Bahauddin and is 18 years old,"takes responsibility for his action," a source close to the investigation said. 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.
Five of the individuals detained were in an apartment in Pantin in the northern Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, the last presumed address of the suspected attacker. The Algerian man, who has been living in France for a decade,"behaved heroically" said his lawyer Lucie Simon, complaining there had been no need to arrest him and keep him detained for hours.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".
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