Two wounded in knife attack near Charlie Hebdo office in Paris

September 25, 2020 16:53

Rediff.com cartoonist Uttam's take on the 2015 attack

Reports say that at least two people were wounded in a knife attack near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. One person has been arrested. Police are still searching the area for more suspects even as they question the arrested suspect..

Police initially announced that four people were wounded in the attack, but it is now believed that two people were involved in the attack.

On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30am local time, two brothers, Sad and Chrif 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 on the Arabian Peninsula, which took responsibility for the attack.

Charlie Hebdo is a French publication that has always 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.

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