Four placed under formal investigation in France for suspected links to Paris cleaver attack

France24 ^ | 12/19/2020 | AFP

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French authorities have charged and detained four Pakistanis suspected of links to a meat cleaver attack by a compatriot outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly that wounded two people, the national counter-terrorism prosecutor's office said Friday.

The four male suspects, aged 17 to 21, were in contact with the attacker, said a source familiar with the case.

They are suspected of being aware of the attacker's plot and inciting him to carry it out, according to another judicial source close to the investigation.

Three of them were charged on Friday with taking part in a terrorist conspiracy and placed in pre-trial detention. The fourth had already been charged on Wednesday.

Two were arrested in the southwest Gironde department, a third in the northern port city of Caen and the last in the Paris region.

"They share his ideology and one of them expressed his hatred of France a few days before the action," said one of the sources.

News of the charges comes two days after a Paris court convicted 13 accomplices of the jihadist gunmen who massacred Charlie Hebdo staff in January 2015.

To mark the start of that trial in early September, the magazine had in typically provocative style reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

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[Dagnabitt]

The Death of Europe.

Willingly marching your children and grandchildren into oblivion because your liberal pieties demand open borders.

[EvilCapitalist]

Let me guess, their names are Pierre, Louis, Jacque, and Jean.