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Attack in Paris: the targeted street was not protected

2020-09-26T07:56:55.378Z


The Minister of the Interior admitted on Friday that there was an underestimation of the threat, especially in the street where the attack took place.


Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said he asked Paris police prefect Didier Lallement why the threat was "

underestimated

" near the former

Charlie Hebdo

premises

where a chopper attack left two injured on Friday September 25 in Paris.

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"

I asked the prefect of police to tell me why we underestimated the threat in this street, rue (Nicolas) Appert

", located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, said the minister on France 2. "

He There was an attack, when there was an attack, it is obviously that we could have done better

", he added, specifying that the editorial staff of

Charlie Hebdo

had left for"

four years

"for an address kept a secret - something that was not necessarily known - and that the street in question had not been the subject of an

explicit

no threat

”.

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The managers of the production company Première Lines, two of whose employees were victims of the attack while they were smoking a cigarette in front of their building, denounced the absence of a police device to protect them while the trial of the 'murderous attack which targeted the satirical weekly in January 2015. "

Since the start of the Charlie Hebdo trial, there has been absolutely no securing of this symbolic street and building

", denounced on BFMTV Luc Hermann, co-director of First Lines.

"

The prefecture may say that rounds are being carried out, but this is not enough,

" he added to

Liberation

.

Shortly before noon on Friday, a man equipped with a chopper injured two people, a man and a woman, both in their thirties, near the former premises of the newspaper, rue Nicolas Appert.

The suspect, an 18-year-old Pakistani, was still in custody on Saturday morning.

After the re-publication of the cartoons on September 2,

Charlie Hebdo

was once again threatened by terrorist organizations.

"

Threats which constitute a real provocation in the midst of the trial of the January 2015 attacks. Threats which go far beyond Charlie since they also target all the media and even the President of the Republic

", lamented Riss, the director of

Charlie Hebdo

, in a statement to AFP.

The newspaper's human resources director was evicted from her home because of the threats.

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Source: lefigaro

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