According to a judicial source, a "former roommate of the main suspect when he was staying in a social hotel" in Cergy, in Val-d'Oise, was taken into custody around 11 pm Friday.
That of another suspect was lifted overnight.
The custody of the second suspect in the chopper attack in Paris on Friday, in front of the former premises of
Charlie Hebdo
, was lifted overnight because this man who was near the place of the attack was put "out cause, "said a judicial source on Saturday.
The custody of this second suspect was "lifted at 11:30 pm" according to the same source.
According to a source familiar with the matter, his account which "consists of saying that he was a witness, pursued the author and was then threatened, was corroborated by the investigation" in this attack which left two seriously injured in the Premiers Lines agency team.
According to the judicial source, a "former roommate of the main suspect when he resided in a social hotel" in Cergy, in Val-d'Oise was in turn placed in police custody around 11 pm Friday.
Seven police custody in progress
This keeps the number of police custody in progress on Saturday morning at seven: first, the main suspect, arrested by police at Place de la Bastille at midday on Friday, a man born in Pakistan and aged 18.
He arrived in France as a minor three years ago.
Then, five men who were in one of the presumed homes of the main suspect, in Pantin, in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Two presumed homes of the main suspect were indeed searched, that of Cergy and that of Pantin.
The national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office seized
The attack comes in the midst of the trial of the murderous attack which targeted the satirical weekly in January 2015. The national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat) has been investigated for "attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise" , entrusted to the criminal brigade and the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).
"Obviously this is an act of Islamist terrorism," said the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin on France 2, deploring "a new bloody attack against our country".
Since the wave of unprecedented jihadist attacks that began in 2015 in France and which left 258 dead, several have been perpetrated with knives, in particular at the Paris police headquarters in October 2019 or in Romans-sur-Isère ( Drôme) last April.