(AFP) A man armed with a meat cleaver wounded two in Paris Friday outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo before being arrested by police, three weeks into the trial of suspected accomplices in the 2015 massacre of the newspaper’s staff.
France’s PNAT specialist anti-terror prosecution office said it has opened a probe into charges of “attempted murder related to a terrorist enterprise” as well as “conspiracy with terrorists.”
Seven people including the main suspect were being held for questioning in connection with the attack.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the attack was “clearly an act of Islamist terrorism.”
“This is a new bloody attack on our country,” Darmanin told broadcaster France 2.
