2020 Paris stabbing attack
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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 magazine's headquarters had previously been the site of an Islamic terrorist attack in 2015.[1]
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Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
Location | 10 Rue Nicolas-Appert, 11th arrondissement of Paris, France |
Date | 25 September 2020 (2020-09-25) |
Attack type | Stabbing |
Weapons | Knife |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 2 |
Motive | Islamic extremism, jihadism |
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For the stabbing of two Muslim women under the Eiffel Tower, see List of Islamophobic incidents § France.
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] Six other suspects were subsequently arrested in Paris in connection with the attack.[4]