FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “French police file terror charges over Paris meat cleaver attack” – below is their description.
A man who wounded two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week near the former offices of satirical weekly newpaper Charlie Hebdo, has been charged with attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise. The suspect, who has identified himself as 25-year-old Pakistani-born Zaheer Hassan Mehmood, has admitted he lied to police when he said he was 18 and had entered the country as a minor, the lead prosecutor in the case said.
FRANCE 24 English YouTube Channel
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In This Story: Charlie Hebdo
On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30am CET local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
Several related attacks followed in the Île-de-France region on 7–9 January 2015, including the Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege.
Charlie Hebdo is a publication that courted controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders. It published cartoons of Muhammad in 2012, forcing France to temporarily close embassies and schools in more than 20 countries amid fears of reprisals. Its offices were also firebombed in November 2011 after publishing a caricature of Muhammad on its cover.