2020 Paris stabbing attack
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10 Rue Nicolas-Appert, 11th arrondissement of Paris, France
| 2020 Paris stabbing attack | |
|---|---|
| Location | 48°51′20″N 2°22′12″E / 48.8556°N 2.37°E 10 Rue Nicolas-Appert, 11th arrondissement of Paris, France |
| Date | 25 September 2020 |
Attack type | Stabbing, terrorist attack |
| Weapons | Knife |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 2 |
| Motive | Islamic extremism, jihadism |
On 25 September 2020, two people were injured in a stabbing outside the former headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The building had previously been the site of an Islamic terrorist attack in 2015.[1]
The French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin considered this to be "clearly an act of Islamist terrorism."[2]
A man from Pakistan, suspected of carrying out the attacks, was arrested near the scene.[3] He was later identified as Zaheer Hassan Mehmood. Six other suspects were subsequently arrested in Paris in connection with the attack.[4] They were convicted and sentenced to prison terms reaching up to 30 years in 2025.
The stabbings occurred in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, near the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. The victims consisted of a man and a woman. Both were employees of the television production company Premières Lignes who were on a cigarette break and sustained serious injuries from a meat cleaver. The attacker fled to the Paris Metro but was arrested in the nearby Bastille neighbourhood with blood on his clothing. A suspicious package was found near the scene, but was found to be harmless. Nearby Paris Metro stations were closed while five schools were placed under a five-hour lockdown. A security cordon was established in the arrondissement.[5][1][6]
Response
Later that day, the site was visited by Prime Minister Jean Castex, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, during which Castex reiterated the government's "firm commitment to combat terrorism by all possible means".[6]
