The bloody attack on two journalists smoking in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo was an act of 'Islamic terrorism', according to a French minister.
Police arrested a man with bloodstained clothes at the scene in Paris yesterday, named as Ali H, who was suspected of carrying out the knifings.
It coincided with the start this month of the trial of 14 alleged accomplices in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, which saw 12 people shot dead.
The suspected attacker was from Pakistan, and had arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. "But manifestly it's an act of Islamist terrorism," Mr Darmanin said in an interview with the France 2 television station. "Obviously, there is
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