Paris: French security arrested four Pakistani-origin men for their suspected involvement in the recent attack outside the former office of Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.
Anadolu Agency reported citing French newspaper Le Parisien, Four Pakistani-origin men have been arrested by French security agencies. The arrests were made in the case related to the attack in which two people were wounded outside the weekly's former office on September 25. The ag of the arrested men ranges between 17-21 and are believed to be friends and relatives of the main attacker Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud,
According to the report, three men were indicted on Friday by an anti-terrorism court in Paris for "criminal terrorist association", while the fourth and the youngest defendant was charged earlier in the week on December 14. Days after the opening of the trail of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack that killed 12 cartoonists and staff members, Hassan struck two people seriously injuring them with a meat cleaver outside the premises of the magazine's former office. He was arrested immediately on terrorism charges and remains in custody. Earlier, On October 16, a young Chechen refugee beheaded teacher Samuel Paty who had shown some of the blasphemous caricatures to his pupils. And on October 29, three people were killed when a young Tunisian recently arrived in Europe went on a stabbing spree in a church in French city of Nice.
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