The suspects are accused of criminal affiliation with an international terror group, and are suspected to be related to a terror cell called the “Gabber Group”.
Italian police arrested 14 Pakistani nationals linked to the Charlie Hebdo attack (file photo)
Authorities in the northwestern Italian port city of Genoa were executing arrest warrants on 14 Pakistani nationals linked to the man who stabbed two people in September 2020 outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris on Tuesday.
The suspects are accused of criminal affiliation with an international terrorist group, and are suspected to be related to a terror cell called the “Gabber Group” with direct links to the attacker, counter-terrorism investigators said in a statement. said in a statement.
Mahmoud, who is now 27 years old and in French custody, told investigators that he acted in anger over a caricature of the prophet Muhammad, which was recently republished by the weekly paper.
Two people were seriously injured in a stabbing outside the newspaper’s former offices, where 12 people were killed by Islamic extremists in January 2015. Two brothers involved in the 2015 attack targeted Charlie Hebdo because they believed the newspaper denounced Islam by publishing it. Muhammad Caricature.