Last week, a man wielding a butcher’s knife stabbed two bystanders outside of
the former offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where ass


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Stabbing Attack In Paris With Charlie Hebdo Trial Underway

(New York, N.Y.) – Last week, a man wielding a butcher’s knife stabbed
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two bystanders outside of the former offices of French satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo, where assailants affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula
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(AQAP) killed 12 people in January 2015 after the magazine published cartoons
depicting the Prophet Muhammad. At the time, the shooting was the deadliest
terrorist incident on French soil in 50 years.

 

According to French officials, the suspect of the September 25 knife attack,
Pakistani national Zaher Hassan Mahmood, sought to set theCharlie Hebdo offices
on fire after the magazine recentlyrepublished
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the controversial cartoons. The attack occurred during the ongoing trial
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, and 11 other individuals for aiding the 2015 terrorist attacks onCharlie Hebdo
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On September 14, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) noted that a pro-AQAP
media groupreleased a statement
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encouraging attacks in France in response to the magazine’s decision. The
message was located on the Internet Archive.

 

Brothers Chérif
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perpetrated the 2015 attack stated their allegiance to AQAP during the assault
and trained with the group, according to Yemeni intelligence. The brothers were
killed in a shootout with French police near Paris two days later.

 

To read CEP’s France resource, please click here
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To read CEP’s al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula resource, please click here
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