Sitrep: Two stabbed in Paris attacks- SItuation stable

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• Two people were stabbed in Paris on 09/25/2020 near the former offices of controversial satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris; both victims were seriously injured but are expected to survive. The situation has been contained.

• The assailant did not know the people stabbed.

• Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin characterized the attack as an act of Islamic terrorism.

• Two suspects are in custody; one suspect is from Pakistan and the other is from Algeria; one of the suspects arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor.

• One of the suspects was arrested in August for carrying a screwdriver.

• A blade, possibly a machete or meat cleaver, was recovered in the area of the attack.

• The attack occurred as a high-profile trial is underway in Paris of 14 individuals accused of helping orchestrate the 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris.