BREAKING: Two wounded in Paris knife attack near former Charlie Hebdo newspaper site
Published Date: 9/25/2020
Source: The Hill
Two people were wounded on Friday during a knife attack in Paris near the former offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, according to the Associated Press. The two people injured work at a documentary film company, Premieres Lignes, according to the company's founder, Paul Moreira. The company founder said that a man with an axe attacked two people outside the building, but did not enter the building, according to the AP. A witness at the scene added that he saw a man in his 30s or 40s with an "axe in his hand, walking behind a victim covered in blood." "I cant tell you how many victims there was, I just saw one,” Kader Alfa told the wire service. French authorities said that a suspect in the attack has been apprehended, though nine schools near the incident remain on lock down, and the area in Paris remains cordoned off by police. Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical paper, was attacked in 2015 by two masked gunmen with Kalashnikov rifles. The two men, who were brothers, killed 12 people, including editor Stephane Charbonnier and several cartoonists. You can read more here: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/518161-two-wounded-in-paris-knife-attack-near-former-charlie-hebdo-newspaper-site