A stabbing attack occurred Friday morning in the 11th arrondissement of Paris in the rue Nicolas Appert, that of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo.
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ACCORSINI JEANNE / SIPA
The investigation is progressing.
The day after the attack in Paris near the former premises of
Charlie Hebdo
, two additional people were taken into police custody.
But the first elements of the investigation "suggest that the main suspect acted alone," said a source familiar with the matter.
Eight other people were still in police custody early Saturday evening as part of the investigation opened by the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office: his little brother, an acquaintance, five men who were in one of his presumed homes in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), and a former roommate in Cergy (Val-d'Oise).
It is a question of understanding "the environment" of the main suspect, according to the source close to the file, because "everything suggests that he acted alone".
A video being authenticated
In addition, a video of several minutes “not yet fully authenticated” shows a man who could be, in an “extremely probable” way, the main suspect of the attack.
On the video, this man "sings, cries, speaks of the caricatures of the prophet and announces his passage to the act in a kind of manifesto", details the source close to the file, which insists on "the absence of an act of 'allegiance to an organization'.
The man, who was neither listed S nor registered in the File of alerts for the prevention of terrorist radicalization, "was not known to the police or intelligence services" for suspicion of radicalization, according to this report. source.
He was the subject in June of a reminder to the law for carrying a category D weapon, "a knife", but not a "screwdriver", as advanced Friday by the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin , we said from the same source.
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Knife attack in Paris: the suspect thought he would attack the headquarters of "Charlie Hebdo"
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