Italian Police Seek Pakistanis Tied to 2020 Attack in Paris

Italian Police Seek Pakistanis Tied to 2020 Attack in Paris
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The Associated Press
Updated:

MILAN—Authorities in the northwestern Italian port city of Genoa on Tuesday were executing arrest warrants on 14 Pakistani citizens linked to the man who stabbed two people in September 2020 outside the former offices in Paris of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.

The suspects are accused of criminal association with an international terror group, and are suspected of belonging to a terror cell called “Gabar Group” with direct links to the attacker, Pakistani-born Zaher Hassan Mahmood, anti-terrorism investigators said in a statement.