Police have arrested a former roommate of the main suspect in the knife attack in Paris in

front of the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo

, a judicial source has indicated.

The main suspect, arrested by police in Place de la Bastille shortly after the butcher knife attack that

left two seriously injured

, is an 18-year-old Pakistani-born man who arrived in France three years ago.

The judicial source specified that another person who remained detained,

a 33-year-old Algerian

, was released since the Justice considered that this man who was near the place of the attack had no connection with the incident.

According to a source close to the file, his account, which "consists in saying that he was a witness,

persecuted the author, and was later threatened

, was corroborated by the investigation."

In this way

, the number of people who remain in detention

this Saturday

remains at seven

.

Five of them were in one of the main suspect's alleged homes, in Pantin, a suburb of Paris.

The Police carried out operations in that presumed home of the main suspect and in another in Cergy, also in the suburbs of the capital.

Friday's attack took place

in full trial for the bloody attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

in January 2015, which killed 12 people, including some of France's most famous cartoonists.

14 people are being tried

by a special court in Paris for the alleged support given to the material authors of the attack, who died after the attack.

"It is an Islamist terrorist act,

a new bloody attack against our country,

" said French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin in statements to the France 2 channel.

The two injured in Friday's attack, both employees of a production agency neighboring the former Charlie Hebdo headquarters,

are hospitalized

but not in danger of death.

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