The attack near the former offices of "Charlie Hebdo" is treated as terrorism: Seven people in custody

Seven people have been detained in connection with yesterday's attack near the former offices of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris, officials announced, as reported by the BBC.

A man wounded two people with a knife in that attack yesterday.

The BBC reports that the main suspect is an 18-year-old man of Pakistani origin who was arrested near the scene of the attack, while police detained six other people for questioning.

The attack is being treated as an act of terrorism.

The French anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has opened an investigation.

The main suspect in Friday's attack was arrested a month ago for carrying a screwdriver but was not on the list of radical Islamists, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanen said.

The young man, who came to France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, was arrested not far from the site of the attack, where dozens of people were killed in 2015, in the attack by Islamic extremists on the editorial office of the magazine "Charlie Hebdo".

Darmanen previously said that the young man apparently came from Pakistan, but that his identity has not yet been confirmed. "It is obviously an act of Islamic terrorism. We have little doubt about it. It is a new bloody attack against our country, against journalists, against this society," said Darmanen.

Anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said earlier that authorities suspect terrorism was the motive for the attack because of the location and time of the attack, in front of the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo magazine, at a time when suspects in the 2015 attack are on trial across Paris. .

Rikard said that the attacker did not know the two wounded people, a woman and a man, who were on break in front of the documentary film production company where they work.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex said that the lives of the wounded were not in danger.