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As further details emerged, the incident reignited some of the most explosive debates in the French national lexicon: the value of free expression in a country that, unlike the United States, does abide by hate-speech laws, and the place of Islam in a nominally secular but post-colonial society in ...

Two people were wounded in the attack outside the satirical magazine's former office - now home to a television production company - on Friday. Eight people were arrested, including a man believed to be responsible for the stabbings, which are being investigated by counter-terrorism officers. Sources close to the ...

AFP — A man suspected of wounding two people with a meat cleaver near the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine has admitted to the attack, linking it to the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed by the satirical weekly, sources said Saturday. The man, who said ...

The man arrested after a knife attack on two people outside the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo told detectives he had been angered by its publication of cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad, French media reported yesterday. The suspect, believed to be an 18-year-old born in Pakistan, ...

Europe12:57 GMT 26.09.2020Get short URLhttps://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/19/1080571190_0:0:3089:1737_1200x675_80_0_0_1d77e6cd06bbd5bfc2f5d061c0d1d59d.jpgSputnik Internationalhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pngSputnikhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pnghttps://sputniknews.com/europe/202009261080580449-suspect-in-paris-attack-angered-by-charlie-hebdos-republication-of-cartoons-reports-say/PARIS (Sputnik) - The main suspect in Friday's knife attack that took place near the former headquarters of the controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo was enraged by the publication's reprint of controversial cartoons depicting Islam's prophet Muhammad, the French newspaper Le Parisien reports, citing ...

Issued on: 26/09/2020 - 14:52Modified: 26/09/2020 - 14:54 A man suspected of wounding two people with a meat cleaver near the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine has admitted staging the attack, linking it to the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed by the satirical weekly, sources ...

He says UN should 'should declare an international day to combat Islamophobia and build a coalition to fight the scourge'. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday condemned the fresh publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad by a French satirical weekly, urging UN efforts against what ...

Al-Qaeda has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff, after it republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory said on Friday.Al-Qaeda in its publication One Ummah had warned that Charlie Hebdo would be mistaken if it believed ...

Issued on: 09/09/2020 - 20:06 The current director of France's Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in January 2015, on Wednesday said the magazine had "nothing to regret" for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that angered Muslims around the world. Fourteen suspected ...

Asia & Pacific18:56 GMT 04.09.2020(updated 18:58 GMT 04.09.2020) Get short URLhttps://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/04/1080369079_0:244:3208:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_1d6e6582ec158f4ef4b5a250c9cecb8f.jpgSputnik Internationalhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pngIrina Acheeva. Sputnik Internationalhttps://sputniknews.com/asia/202009041080369190-thousands-of-protesters-march-in-pakistan-over-charlie-hebdo-rerun-of-mohammad-cartoons/Charlie Hebdo gained worldwide attention after the January 2015 terrorist attack on its Paris headquarters that killed 12 people, including its editor. The attack is believed to have been triggered by the outlet's publication of ...