Four people were stabbed on Friday in a knife attack outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, multiple outlets reported.
Police did not say whether it was a terrorist attack. The stabbing comes five years after two terrorists entered the magazine’s offices armed with various weapons and opened fire on magazine staff, killing twelve and injuring eleven. The terrorists targeted Charlie Hebdo because it had published material mocking Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
Friday’s attack came amid the trial of 14 suspected accomplices to the 2015 shooting.
“An attack with a bladed weapon was carried out in the 11th arrondissement in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo," French prime minister Jean Castex told reporters. Castex termed the attack a “serious event” and said two victims were in critical condition.
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