Attack near the former Charlie Hebdo premises in 2020: a trial ordered for six men including the attacker. According to investigators, the suspect thought he was attacking Charlie Hebdo journalists.
Three of them being minors at the time of the events, the trial will be held before the specially composed juvenile court. During an interrogation before the investigating judge in December 2020, he confided to having been “shocked” by the new publication of the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by the weekly. This publication led to demonstrations in Muslim countries, including Pakistan, his country of origin.