Two stabbed near Charlie Hebdo’s old offices, France opens anti-terror probe

Prime Minister Jean Castex, who rushed to the scene, said the main attacker had been arrested. A second person was also in custody.

France opened an anti-terror investigation after two journalists were stabbed in Paris on Friday near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine that was attacked by Islamist militants in 2015.

Prime Minister Jean Castex, who rushed to the scene, said the main attacker had been arrested. A second person was also in custody.

A second person was also in custody after the attack, in which witnesses said a meat cleaver or butcher’s knife had been used as a weapon.

A local resident, who heard the attack, told Reuters there was a long, deathly shout from “a person who was screaming and screaming.”

A neighbour said she saw blood on the ground and people pulling a wounded woman away into a building housing a news agency.

Workers repairing the…

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