Two people were said to be critically wounded in the incident, which French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin described as a 'new bloody attack on our country'.
A man said to be armed with a meat cleaver allegedly wounded two in Paris on Friday outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo before being arrested by police, three weeks into the trial of suspected accomplices in the 2015 massacre of the newspaper's staff.
Twelve people, including some of France's most celebrated cartoonists, were killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo by Islamist gunmen on 7 January, 2015. "They were both very badly wounded," the founder and co-head of Premieres Lignes, Paul Moreira, told AFP.Policemen, firefighter and soldiers are deployed near Appert street, where the attack took place.The company specialises in investigative reports and produces the prize-winning Cash Investigation programme.Paris prosecutors said the alleged"main perpetrator" was arrested not far from the scene of the crime.
Five more people - all men born between 1983 and 1996 who were arrested in the Paris suburb of Pantin during a search of a property linked to the main suspect - were also being held for questioning, a judicial source said late Friday. They were victims of"fanaticism" and"intolerance", Charlie Hebdo said, calling the main suspect and his possible accomplice"terrorists".The stabbing came during the trial of 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.
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