PARIS — 4 individuals have been wounded by no less than one knife-wielding assailant in Paris on Friday close to the positioning of the previous Charlie Hebdo workplace — the scene of a 2015 terrorist assault focusing on the satirical newspaper — the authorities stated.
Jean Castex, the French prime minister, reduce brief a scheduled speech, saying {that a} “severe occasion” had simply occurred within the capital.
“An assault with a bladed weapon was carried out within the 11th arrondissement in entrance of the previous places of work of Charlie Hebdo,” Mr. Castex stated, including that two of the wounded gave the impression to be in important situation.
Native authorities stated police have been in search of a “doubtlessly harmful” particular person within the east of the capital. Emmanuel Grégoire, the deputy mayor of Paris, in a publish on Twitter urged individuals to keep away from the Richard-Lenoir neighborhood — the place Charlie Hebdo had its places of work earlier than the terrorist attack in January 2015 that left 12 individuals lifeless.
The Paris police stated there was an ongoing police operation within the space however didn’t present particulars.
Al Qaeda, the terrorist group, had just lately issued new threats towards Charlie Hebdo, which moved after the assault to extremely secured places of work elsewhere. The threats adopted the newspaper’s choice to reprint satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on the opening of the trial of several people accused of aiding the assailants.
