Four people were arrested on Monday, including two in Gironde, in the investigation of the chopper attack perpetrated by a young Pakistani at the end of September near the former premises of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, according to a judicial source at AFP.
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Four men were arrested on Monday, December 14 in Gironde, Caen and the Paris region, in the investigation of the chopper attack perpetrated by a young Pakistani at the end of September near the former premises of Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
They are presented to the anti-terrorism justice, AFP learned this Friday, December 18, according to a judicial source, confirming information from the Parisian.
Two arrests in Gironde
Of the four arrests, two were carried out in Gironde, in particular that of the youngest, who had already been arrested in September during the flagrance investigation, as an acquaintance of the perpetrator of the knife attack.
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The latter was indicted on Wednesday for “terrorist criminal association” criminal and remanded in custody. The other three were being presented to an investigating judge on Friday for their indictments.
Did the attacker have accomplices?
These four men, aged 17 to 21, all of Pakistani origin, were in contact with the assailant, said a source familiar with the matter. They are suspected of having been informed of his project and of having been able to encourage him to take action, according to another source close to the investigation.
“They share his ideology and one of them expressed his hatred of France a few days before the action”, said one of the sources close to the investigation.
A reminder of the facts
On September 25, Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, 25, seriously injured two people with a chopper in front of the ex-locals of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Arrested shortly afterwards, he told investigators that he had watched before the attack on the “videos from Pakistan” concerning the republication in early September by Charlie Hebdo of the cartoons of Muhammad before the opening of the trial against the newspaper in January 2015.
Some relatives had also confirmed that the man was watching videos of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the founder and leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, said TLP, a Pakistani extremist movement.
Indicted for “attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “conspiracy” criminal terrorist, Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud had been remanded in custody.
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