French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen called the attack at the former building of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo an Islamist terrorist attack. It is reported by “Interfax”.
According to him, the French authorities underestimated the threat of an attack from supporters of radical Islam right on the streets of Paris. The minister stressed that France will never stop fighting Islamist terrorism.
Earlier it was reported that terrorists with knives staged an attack near the former Charlie Hebdo building. One of the attackers has already been detained, another one is wanted by law enforcement officers. It is noted that as a result of the attack, four people were injured, two of them are in serious condition.
On September 12, the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia) threatened Charlie Hebdo with a new attack for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The weekly on September 2 reissued 12 cartoons (according to the number of those killed in the attack on the editorial office in 2015), explaining that “these drawings have become history, and history can neither be rewritten nor erased”. In addition, the newspaper adds, since the first publication, a new generation has grown up that does not know about the attack and will not understand the trial of the criminals.
On January 7, 2015, the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, which was then located in the said building, was attacked by three armed men. The terrorist attack killed 12 people, including 10 employees of the publication. Later, all the attackers were destroyed. The reason for the attack was the publication on the cover of the magazine of a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. Responsibility for organizing and carrying out the shooting at the editorial office was assumed by the leader of the Yemeni al-Qaeda cell, Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi. In July 2015, Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief and publisher Laurent Surisso announced that the publication would no longer publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
