Paris stabbing attack an act of terrorism: French minister

The stabbing attack in Paris on Friday near the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was “clearly an act of Islamist terrorism,” said French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

“It is clearly an act of Islamist terrorism,” Darmanin told France 2 TV channel. “This is the street where there was Charlie Hebdo. It is the operating method of Islamist terrorists, of course, evidently, there is little doubt,” he added.

At around 11:30 a.m. local time on Friday, a man and a woman smoking on the street of Nicolas-Appert, in the 11th district of Paris, were attacked by knife. The two persons were journalists and their lives were not in danger.

France’s National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office announced that an investigation was opened for “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise.”