Two stabbed outside Charlie Hebdo's former Offices as head of HR forced to leave home due to threats to staff

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Knifeman in Paris wounds two at scene of Charlie Hebdo attacks

A man armed with a meat cleaver attacked and wounded two people on Friday who had stepped out for a cigarette in front of the Paris office building where Islamist militants gunned down employees of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago.

uk.reuters.com

France opened an anti-terror investigation after two journalists were stabbed in Paris on Friday near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine that was attacked by Islamist militants in 2015.

Workers repairing the road told her “a dark-skinned man randomly hit a lady with a big butcher’s knife” in front of a mural that serves as a memorial to victims of the 2015 attack.

The attack was carried out in what Castex said was a “symbolic place” and coincided with the start this month of the trial of 14 alleged accomplices in the 2015 attack.

Police moved Charlie Hebdo’s head of Human Resources from her home this week after threats against her life.

Charlie Hebdo: French magazine's head of HR 'forced out of home'

Marika Bret, who lost 12 colleagues in the 2015 attack, says her guards received "detailed threats".

www.bbc.co.uk

Charlie Hebdo magazine's head of HR has left her home because of "precise and detailed threats" to her security guards, French media report.

Marika Bret said her guards, who have protected her for almost five years, received the threats on 14 September.

Earlier this month the magazine republished the controversial cartoons, ahead of 14 people going on trial accused of assisting the two gunmen in that attack.

 

[SilentPony]

Oh great just what 2020 needed. An Islamic terrorist scare/witch hunt.