France says it arrested four people linked to a September 25 meat cleaver attack in Paris, outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. <\/p>\n
The four are of Pakistani origin, as is the main suspect, Agence France-Presse reported. <\/p>\n
Two people were wounded in the attack. <\/p>\n
According to news reports, the four were arrested Monday, with one being charged two days later with taking part in a terrorist conspiracy. The remaining three were set to be charged, as well. <\/p>\n
The four were suspected of knowing about the attack beforehand and encouraging Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud to carry it out, according to a report in the Le Parisien newspaper. <\/p>\n
Mahmoud, who said he wanted to attack the magazine for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, was arrested after the attack and remains in custody. <\/p>\n
Two days before the arrest, a French court convicted 13 accomplices in the 2015 gun attack on Charlie Hebdo offices that killed 12 and wounded 11.<\/p>\n
Charlie Hebdo vacated those offices after the 2015 attack and is now in a secret location. <\/p>\n
In October, a Chechen refugee in a Paris suburb beheaded a teacher, Samuel Paty, who had shown the Hebdo cartoons to his pupils. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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