French police have detained a former flatmate of a man arrested over an attack with a meat cleaver that left two wounded outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
French police have detained a former flatmate of a man arrested over an attack with a meat cleaver that left two wounded outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, a judicial source said Saturday.
France's PNAT specialist anti-terror prosecution office said Friday it had opened a probe into charges of"attempted murder related to a terrorist enterprise" against him as well as"conspiracy with terrorists." Charlie Hebdo has angered many Muslims around the world by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed over the years, and in a defiant gesture reprinted some of the caricatures ahead of the trial.
A source close to the investigation confirmed to AFP on Friday that a large meat cleaver found near the scene was used by the attacker.
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