Paris Knife Attacker Suspect Says He Wanted to Go After Charlie Hebdo

Paris Knife Attacker Suspect Says He Wanted to Go After Charlie Hebdo
A French police stands near the Opera Bastille where a suspect in a stabbing attack near the former offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo has been arrested in Paris, France Sept. 25, 2020. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
Reuters
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PARIS—The man believed to have attacked and wounded two people with a meat cleaver on Friday is cooperating with the police and said he had targeted weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a police source told Reuters.

The attack took place in front of a building where Islamist militants gunned down employees of Charlie Hebdo in 2015 because of the republication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad.