In the same place, more than five years later.
A chopper attack left two injured on Friday September 25 in Paris in front of the former Charlie Hebdo premises, in the midst of the murderous attack that targeted the satirical weekly in January 2015, and seven people were arrested including the author presumed.
This one, an 18-year-old did not present "any sign of radicalization", according to the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.
Update on the investigation.
What happened ?
Shortly before noon on Friday, September 25, a man with a chopper injured two people, a man and a woman, both in their thirties, near the former premises of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, rue Nicolas Appert, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
"Their lives are not in danger, thank God," Prime Minister Jean Castex said during a visit to the scene.
According to Paul Moreira, founder and co-director of the First Lines news agency, they were both injured "in the upper body", while the man was also shot in the head.
The two victims are employed by his company, located in the street.
Since the attack of January 7, 2015, in which 12 people were killed by the Kouachi brothers, Charlie Hebdo no longer occupies its premises in the 11th century.
The editorial staff moved to a secret address.
Who are the suspects arrested?
Shortly after the incident, a man was arrested near the Place de la Bastille.
The 18-year-old was born in Pakistan, according to a source close to the case.
He is the "principal author of the facts", declared Jean-François Ricard, the head of the national antiterrorist prosecutor's office (Pnat), in charge of the investigation.
Arrived in France "three years ago, as an isolated minor", according to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, he presented "no sign of radicalization" affirmed the departmental council of Val-d'Oise, which took him in. charge via child welfare.
"It was not listed S" nor registered in the File of alerts for the prevention of terrorist radicalization (FSPRT), said the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
He was arrested in June in possession of a bladed weapon, "a screwdriver" according to a source familiar with the matter.
Shortly after the attack, another man, 33, was also taken into police custody "in order to carry out a number of checks" on "his relations with the principal perpetrator," Ricard said. .
During a search at the end of the day in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) at one of his supposed homes, five men, born between 1983 and 1996, were arrested and placed in police custody, according to a judicial source .
The judicial information opened by the Pnat for "attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal terrorist association" was entrusted to the Paris judicial police and to the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).
"Symbolic place" at the time of the trial of the January 2015 attacks
The attack took place "in a symbolic place", "at the same time as the trial of the perpetrators of unworthy acts against Charlie Hebdo is taking place," said Jean Castex on Friday, who recalled the "unwavering attachment" of the government " freedom of the press "and" its resolute will by all means to fight terrorism ".
It comes as the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo has been the subject of new threats since the weekly republished cartoons of Muhammad on September 2, on the occasion of the opening of the trial, scheduled until November 10.
Gérald Darmanin said he had asked the Prefect of Police Didier Lallement "the reasons why the threat was clearly underestimated" in the rue Nicolas Appert.
"Since the start of the Charlie Hebdo trial, there has been absolutely no securing of this symbolic street and building," lamented Luc Hermann, co-leader of First Lines.
After a short suspension on Friday at the trial of the January 2015 attacks, the hearing resumed without any mention by the special assize court of Paris of the attack, according to an AFP journalist.
Pakistan in pre-recorded speech condemns "Charlie Hebdo Islamophobia"
Prime Minister Jean Castex, who visited the scene with the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, affirmed his "resolute will, by all means, to fight against terrorism", specifying about the two victims that "their lives are not in danger, thank goodness".
"Charlie's entire team is providing support and solidarity to his former neighbors and colleagues on the front lines and to those affected by this heinous attack," the satirical weekly posted on Twitter.
"Once again it is freedom that is the target of this barbarism", reacted François Hollande: the former President of the Republic called on BFM "the mobilization of all political actors" and "a consensus to act" .
In a tweet, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo condemned "with the greatest firmness the vile terrorist attack".
From abroad, the President of the European Council Charles Michel and the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte expressed their "solidarity with the French people".
On the other hand, before the United Nations, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan denounced, in a pre-recorded speech, "Islamophobia" including, according to him, the re-publication in early September "blasphemous sketches of Charlie Hebdo are ( a) recent example ".
(France 24 with AFP)
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