A woman wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of the French weekly Charlie Hebdo was slightly injured with a stabbing on Sunday in Hyde Park, central London, police said.
Who called for witnesses to find the perpetrator of the attack.
"The police were called by the emergency services at 3:34 pm Sunday for an assault at Speakers'Corner" in Hyde Park, the Met Police said in a statement Sunday evening.
"Officers who attended found a 39-year-old woman suffering from a minor cut to the head."
"She was treated on site before being taken to a central London hospital," she added, adding that her life was not in danger.
A knife found on the spot
In videos widely shared on social networks, we see a person dressed in black approaching a woman wearing a T-shirt marked "Charlie Hebdo".
She was then seen with blood on her head, picked up by a nearby police van.
Here is a video of the incident.
The police are almost directly behind the perpetrator.
I'm not sure how he could have possibly gotten away.pic.twitter.com/ZWBatRMjg9
- Yasmine Mohammed 🦋 ياسمين Ů…ŘŮ…ŘŻ (@YasMohammedxx) July 26, 2021
Police said they found a knife near the scene after a search and asked witnesses to contact them, asking in the meantime not to "speculate on the motive of the attack".
"We are only in the early stages of our investigation and we are working hard to find the person responsible," she insisted.
On January 7, 2015 in Paris, the Kouachi brothers attacked the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, which had published cartoons of Muhammad, with a weapon of war, murdering 12 people there, including the historical cartoonists Cabu and Wolinski, before taking the lead. leak.
