Fear in
Paris.
Four people were injured
in a knife attack
near the
former Charlie Hebdo office.
Stop two suspects near the Bastille
.
The two suspects are in custody and an investigation has been opened for attempted murder for terrorist purposes.
The main perpetrator of today's Paris attack is an
18-year-old Pakistani, known to the police for common crimes.
It has no precedent for Islamic radicalism.
With him - reports the prosecutor - a 33-year-old man was arrested, but his role remains to be defined.
The kitchen cleaver used today
was found next to
the
Richard Lenoir subway stop
,
according to what has been learned from police sources.
A few meters from the place of discovery, the second of the suspects in the attack was stopped today
Two of the injured are employees of the Première Ligne news agency, of which "one is serious": this is what was stated by the journalist of the same press agency, Paul Moreira, interviewed on the phone by BFM-TV, according to which the two injured would therefore be a woman.
Both
would not be in danger of life anyway.
"It's chilling, we hadn't received any threats," Moreira adds.
Première ligne journalists were the first to spread, after the Charlie Hebdo attack, the images of the two killers, the Kouachi brothers, on the run after the massacre.
The inhabitants of the area are advised not to leave the house.
Thousands of children armored in schools.
French President Macron is following the developments.
Crisis unit activated.
The national anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation for "attempted murder in connection" with a "terrorist" attack.
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This morning's attack was carried out in Rue Nicolas-Appert, right in front of the old headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, the scene of the atrocious attack of 7 January 2015
.
That day, 12 people were murdered under the blows of the Kouachi brothers.
Stop two people.
A second individual was stopped by the police also in the Bastille neighborhood, not far from where the first suspect of the attack had been stopped in front of the former Charlie Hebdo office about an hour ago.
According to reports from France Info radio, the second man was stopped at the "Richard Lenoir" metro station.
The first had been stopped near the Opera Bastille.
The whole area around the rue Nicolas Appert, where the former Charlie Hebdo office stood, is isolated.
The inhabitants are advised not to leave their homes, armored schools and public offices.
Une attaque à l'arme blanche a été perpétrée à proximité des anciens locaux de l'hebdomadaire Charlie Hebdo.
Je me rends immédiatement place Beauvau pour faire a point sur la situation avec le ministre de l'Intérieur @GDarmanin.
- Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) September 25, 2020
The French Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced on live TV the immediate interruption of his visit to the Seine Saint-Denis, in the banlieue of Paris, to go to the crisis cell set up at the Ministry of the Interior to follow live what is happening in Paris.
The premier confirmed the attack and the wounding of 4 people, two of them serious.
The children and young people of the schools in the neighborhood were confined to schools.
Parents of students from schools around the Bastille have been warned not to try to fetch their children until the alert has subsided.
Photo from Twitter. Rescue to an injured person
"
There is no place for terror on European territory
".
Thus the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, comments on the attack near the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, on Twitter.
"Full solidarity with the French people" in the face of "this new test", adds Michel, dedicating his "thoughts to the victims of the vile act of violence".
