ToplineTwo people were seriously injured in a knife attack Friday near the former offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Paris police told CNN, as a trial of suspects alleged to have been accomplices to a series of January 2015 terrorist attacks which began with a massacre at the Charlie Hebdo office, is ongoing. A total of 17 people were killed in the January 2015 attacks which took place in the French capital over three days, starting at the Charlie Hebdo building, Al Qaeda’s offshoot in Yemen claimed responsibility for the 2015 attack on the magazine. Further BackgroundThe new incident comes weeks after France on Sept. 2 opened a trial for alleged accomplices in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo newsroom and a kosher supermarket in 2015. TangentMinutes after the attacks, dozens of politicians from across the political spectrum posted messages on Twitter to support the victims. Some used the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie or #IAmCharlie, frequently used following the 2015 attack.

Source: Forbes September 25, 2020 13:21 UTC