BREAKING Knife attack near former Charlie Hebdo offices leaves 4 people injured
Police confirmed that an incident is in progress at the Richard Lenoir sector of the French capital. Police are advising residents to avoid the area.
One suspect has been arrested in connection to the knife attack. It is unclear if police are searching for more suspects.offices after a suspect package was noticed nearby, reported TheIn January 2015, 12 people were killed in a terrorist attack after the satirical magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The magazine republished the controversial cartoons earlier this month ahead of the trial of 14 people accused of assisting two gunmen who carried out the attack. In an editorial, the magazine said they had been asked many times to publish images of the Muslim prophet, which is forbidden in the Islam religion, after 2015 but decided the start of trial was the time to do so."We have always refused to do so, not because it is prohibited—the law allows us to do so—but because there was a need for a good reason to do it, a reason which has meaning and which brings something to the debate," it said.
"To reproduce these cartoons in the week the trial over the January 2015 terrorist attacks opens seemed essential to us."This week, the magazine's director, Laurent"
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