The main suspect in the knife attack, which resulted in two people being injured yesterday, in front of the former offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, “confessed” while he was detained by the authorities, the French Agency reported citing sources relating to the inquiry.
According to the inquiry’s early data, the 18-year-old man, who was born in Pakistan, “confessed to the stabbings and took responsibility for his action which he places in the context of the republication of cartoons (of the Prophet Mohammed in Charlie Hebdo) which he did not tolerate,” one of the sources said.
At the same time, one of the suspects arrested near the crime scene was released, according to judicial sources who spoke to the German News Agency and the Reuters news agency.
According to a source who spoke to Reuters, another man was arrested, who was close to the suspect, as he is believed to be his ex-flatmate in a hotel in Paris.
