Terror Probe Opened After 2 Stabbed in Paris; 2 Arrests

Terror Probe Opened After 2 Stabbed in Paris; 2 Arrests
French police officers patrol the area after a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, on Sept. 25, 2020. Thibault Camus/AP Photo
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PARIS—French terrorism authorities are investigating a double-stabbing outside the former Paris offices of a satirical newspaper where a dozen people were killed in 2015, and two suspects have been arrested in Friday’s violence, authorities said.

France’s counterterrorism prosecutor said authorities suspect a terrorist motive because of the place and timing of the stabbings: in front of the building where Charlie Hebdo was based until the Islamic terrorist attack on its cartoonists and at a time when suspects in the 2015 attack are on trial across town.