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Four people were wounded with bladed weapons in Paris this Friday, next to the building of the former newsroom of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the police of the French capital announced.
Two of the injured are in a state of “absolute emergency“and the two alleged perpetrators of the attack are”on the run“, added the city hall.
A suspect has since been arrested, a police source announced, the Reuters agency said.
The circumstances of what happened are not known for now.
Authorities asked the public to avoid the area.
Shortly after the attack, Emmanuel Grégoire, deputy mayor of Paris wrote on Twitter that the police are looking for a potentially dangerous individual.
The former newsroom of the newspaper was the target, on January 7, 2015, of a ‘jihadist’ attack that left 12 dead and five seriously injured.
French newspapers publish open letter in defense of Charlie Hebdo magazine
About 100 media outlets in France have published an open letter calling for the defense of freedom of expression, in support of Charlie Hebdo magazine, when the 2015 bombings are being tried.
The letter comes in the wake of new threats, notably from the Islamic extremist organization Al-Qaeda, against Charlie Hebdo, three weeks after the trial of the attack on the newspaper that killed 12 in 2015 and the republication of the Muhammad cartoons began. , on September 2, condemned by several Muslim countries.
Michel Euler / AP
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