September 20, 2024

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Italian police search Pakistanis tied to 2020 assault in Paris

The suspects are accused of felony affiliation with a global terror staff, and are suspected of belonging to an apprehension cellular referred to as “Gabar Team”.

14 Pakistani voters related to Charlie Hebdo assaults arrested through Italian police (Document Picture)

Government within the northwestern Italian port town of Genoa on Tuesday have been executing arrest warrants on 14 Pakistani voters related to the person who stabbed two folks in September 2020 out of doors the previous places of work in Paris of the Charlie Hebdo satirical mag.

The suspects are accused of felony affiliation with a global terror staff, and are suspected of belonging to an apprehension cellular referred to as “Gabar Team” with direct hyperlinks to the attacker, Pakistani-born Zaher Hassan Mahmood, anti-terrorism investigators mentioned in a commentary.

Mahmood, now 27 and in French custody, instructed investigators that he acted out of anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that were lately republished through the weekly paper.

Two folks have been severely wounded within the stabbing, which happened out of doors the newspaper’s former places of work the place Islamic extremists killed 12 folks in January 2015. The 2 brothers concerned within the 2015 assault focused Charlie Hebdo as a result of they believed the newspaper had blasphemed Islam through publishing the similar Muhammad caricatures.