Paris stabbing suspect says he aimed to target Charlie Hebdo

The chief suspect in a double stabbing in Paris told investigators he carried out the attack outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad it recently republished. The 18-year-old suspect said he intended to target the satirical weekly, which in January 2015 was targeted by gunmen, an official close to the investigation told AFP news agency on Saturday. The attack on Friday came three weeks into a trial in Paris of suspected accomplices in the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo, a policewoman, and a Jewish supermarket that killed 17 people. While the man is believed to have carried out the stabbings alone, eight other people are now also under arrest following two more detentions on Saturday. The two new individuals arrested were the suspect’s younger brother and another acquaintance, a judicial source said. The people wounded were employees of prize-winning TV production agency Premieres Lignes, whose offices are in the same block in central Paris that used to house Charlie Hebdo. However, it is believed the two victims, who stepped out onto the street for a cigarette break, were not specifically attacked. They were badly wounded but their lives are not in danger. The suspect mistakenly believed Charlie Hebdo’s offices were still in that building and wanted to attack journalists from the magazine, a source said, confirming information first published in the Le Parisien newspaper. style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;">