Paris Knife Attack Suspect Wanted to Avenge Mohammad Cartoons

A French police officer stands near the Opera Bastille where a suspect in a stabbing attack near the former offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo was arrested in Paris, on Sept. 25, 2020. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

PARIS/ISLAMABAD—French police are studying a video in which the man suspected of attacking people with a meat cleaver on Friday says he will commit an act of “resistance” after the republication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad in a satirical magazine.

The suspect, who is from Pakistan, was arrested soon after two people were wounded in front of the old offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine. Officials said his clothes were spattered in blood.