The old building of "Charlie Hebdo", target of the chopper attack which left two wounded Friday in Paris, "was not the subject of any known threat", indicated on Saturday the police headquarters, accused by the Minister of the Interior for "underestimating" the threat.
"The old
Charlie Hebdo
building
was not subject to any known threat and the companies currently housed there have not reported any threats to their staff," said the police headquarters Saturday, the day after a stabbing attack that left two injured.
The current site of the headquarters of
Charlie Hebdo
, whose address is kept secret, "has been the subject of reinforced security with static guard since the start of the opening of the trial" of the January 2015 attacks which took place. opened in early September before the special court of assizes in Paris, adds the prefecture.
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"There was an attack, when there was an attack, obviously we could have done better"
"The 'building' security of the site is extremely reinforced and is subject to regular reassessments," said the same source.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday that he had asked the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement, why the threat was "undervalued" in the rue Nicolas Appert, address of the former premises of the satirical weekly.
"There was an attack, when there was an attack, it is obvious that we could have done better," he said on France 2, while acknowledging that the street in question had not done the subject of an explicit "no threat".
The leaders of First Lines, the television production company which already occupied the building during the 2015 attacks, and whose two employees were seriously injured in the attack, were indignant at the lack of security of the premises.
"Since the start of the Charlie Hebdo trial, there has been absolutely no securing of this symbolic street and building," notably denounced Luc Hermann, co-leader of First Lines.