The suspect of the attack in Paris indicted and imprisoned

Around rue Nicolas Appert in Paris on September 25, just after the stabbing attack.

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Legal proceedings concerning the attack on Friday in Paris, near the former premises of

, are advancing.

At the end of four days in police custody, Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud was presented to an examining magistrate who indicted him on Tuesday for "attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal association Criminal terrorist.

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) has also announced that he has been placed in pre-trial detention.

Doubts raised about his identity

During a press conference in the afternoon, the national counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard had confirmed that by attacking two employees of the Premiers Lines agency, he was targeting

, whose premises were located at this place, rue Nicolas-Appert (XIth arrondissement), during the terrorist attack of January 2015. In addition, the alleged assailant, who initially claimed to be called Hassan Ali and to be 18 years old, was confronted with a photo of a Pakistani passport found in his phone and finally declared his name as Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud and to be 25 years old.

A premeditated act

The author of this Islamist attack told investigators to have watched "in recent days videos from Pakistan" concerning the publication and republication in early September by

of cartoons of Mohammed.

His act was premeditated, according to the Pnat: "angry", the person had carried out spotting the days before the attack, had bought the same morning the chopper, a hammer and bottles of white spirit, because his " initial project was to enter the newspaper's premises, if necessary using a hammer, and set them on fire ”.

"Arriving in front of the street, and seeing the victims, he thought that the latter were working for (

) and decided to attack them (...) suddenly," explained Jean-François Ricard.

The Front Lines employee is "still hospitalized in a very serious condition" with several fractures of the skull, while his colleague has had "several wounds and fractures to the face".

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