Maria Laura Avignolo
09/25/2020 - 10:20
Clarín.com
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Again the horror in the vicinity of the former editorial staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, when the trial against its authors and collaborators is being held in the new Palace of Justice.
This we know so far:
Apparently
one or two men
armed with a machete attacked at least four people on rue Nicolas Appert, where the magazine was located before the 2015 massacre, at 11:45 a.m.
A horrifying symbol when France
seeks to try
11 collaborators of the terrorists who survived that attack, the protagonists are killed.
Two injured people are in a state of
extreme gravity
and one of the attackers fled to the Metro Bastille, according to the first information.
Detained
The main perpetrator was arrested, according to the anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean Francois Rocard.
It was already known that there were
two suspects in custody.
One was interrogated on the Place de la Bastille when the police observed him covered in blood, on the steps of the Opera de la Bastille.
He was detained in
"garde a vue"
(in custody) and is being questioned.
This is believed to be the attacker.
He would be 19 years old.
And it would be of
Indian origin.
A second suspect has now been detained but other details are unknown.
The details of the attack and how many carried out
it is still unclear.
The whole place was closed.
And the neighbors, in their houses.
Photo: Bloomberg
It is feared that other people in the neighborhood are ready to attack, as happened in 2015. The police search for
explosives
throughout the neighborhood, and they keep neighbors locked in their houses.
In fact, a suspicious package that the police is investigating at this time was found in the former Charlie Hebdo newsroom.
A drone flies over the area.
Security forces search under parked vehicles in heavily armed train groups.
Next to the Richard Lenori Metro station, meters from the attack,
a butcher's ax
was found
.
A butcher's ax was found at the scene of the attacks in Paris.
Photo: Screenshot.
The victims
Two press workers, in charge of production, from the Premier Ligne agency, are the first victims because they
smoked a cigarette
outside what was the Charlie Hebdo newsroom.
Premier Ligne was the agency that shared the apartment with Charlie Hebdo and
filmed the attack in 2015
.
One of the injured journalists is in serious condition.
“We have two injured people, one of them very seriously.
A man and a woman, who are employees of this company.
They were attacked by a man outside the offices of the former Charlie Hebdo.
It was extremely fast.
He did not enter the building.
They saw only one person.
I cannot speak because there is a police device around our office, ”said Paul Moreira, the editor-in-chief of Premier Ligne, who is on the second floor of the building and in front of the door of the Charlie Hebdo newsroom.
The army, on site
A French soldier guards the area.
Photo: AP
The army was the first to reach the place, 100 meters from the Place de la Bastille, with a lot of traffic at that time.
The entire area was closed with security forces and military forces, and the press cannot enter due to fear of suspicious packages.
The sirens deafen the area and the cars of the secret police move, with groups of patrols that search businesses and force them to close, after checking that there is no one hiding in the place.
Counter-terrorism operation
The French authorities were present at the scene.
Photo: AFP
The Vigipirate device, which was installed after the terrorist attacks of 2015, is in effect in Paris, at a time when the city is on high alert for fear of a terrorist attack due to the Charlie Hebdo trial.
They ask the population not to approach the area, which is
covered with security cameras.
"A serious attack is coming to be carried out in Paris, near the former Charlie Hebdo newsroom.
There are 4 injured and two in serious condition ”, said Minister Castex, who was in St Denis, and went to the area of the crisis cell.
Macron follows the case
Forensics work on site.
Photo: Reuters
President
Emmanuel Macron follows the case
from the Eliseo Palace.
The Paris antiterrorist park opened an investigation "for attempted murder in connection with a terrorist company, an association of criminal terrorist criminals."
The Paris prosecutor announced a case "for attempted murder."
Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin arrived at the scene.
The attack was recorded
Journalists and neighbors
managed to film
the scene and have handed it over to the Paris criminal squad and the SAT, which investigates terrorist cases.
A neighbor saw from her apartment on Richard Lenoir Boulevard run "a bloody person with a machete" and called the police.
The magazine is still under threat
The new Charlie Hebdo newsroom is located in an unknown place, armored, guarded by the police 24 hours a day.
His treasurer was evacuated from her home two days ago when she received death threats.
The Fatwa of the Self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) against Charlie Hebdo
remains in force
against its journalists, who published the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad again at the beginning of the trial.
Its journalists live in their houses guarded 24 hours a day.
A shaken neighborhood
The Bastille district in eastern Paris was shocked.
Photo: AFP
The Bastille district, in the east of Paris, and very close to the Marais, has been shaken.
An operation to protect the population was launched.
No one can leave their homes or businesses.
The police and the army
forced down the blinds
of the shops, after they investigated if someone had not been hiding in them.
They ask neighbors not to leave their houses, report any suspicious movements and not open the doors of the buildings to strangers.
It is not yet known how many the attackers are and if they have accomplices.
Schools
are closed
like kindergartens and nurseries.
They ask parents not to go to school for their children.
People ate lunch in area restaurants in the 11th district of Paris and were confined with the arrival of the police.
Nurseries and nursing homes have also been isolated.
The municipality of Paris reported that all the establishments with students from zone 3 and 4 are in "temporary confinement" as well as the XI neighborhood.
It will be the prefecture of Paris that will decide if the confinement is lifted but they ask parents not to approach the schools to look for their children.
Metro closed
The Bastille metro was closed and with the exception of the police, there are no people in the area.
Five schools and seven high schools closed.
The operation now extends to the IV district of Paris, when the city is filled with sirens and police cars.
“People are running home because the police isolate the area.
All the boulevards and streets leading from the Place de la Bastille are covered in policemen.
Nobody understands what happens.
I managed to get out of the Bastille Metro and they closed it.
There I discovered a message from a friend alerting me to an attack and not to take the Metro.
They have also stopped the buses and forced people to get off.
They are organizing security throughout the neighborhood, ”said Marie, who arrived at her work at Faubourg St Antoine at noon and was blocked in the square.
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