Italian police search Pakistanis tied to 2020 assault in Paris

The suspects are accused of legal affiliation with a world terror group, and are suspected of belonging to a terror cell referred to as “Gabar Group”.

14 Pakistani residents linked to Charlie Hebdo assaults arrested by Italian police (File Photo)

Authorities within the northwestern Italian port metropolis of Genoa on Tuesday had been executing arrest warrants on 14 Pakistani residents linked to the person who stabbed two folks in September 2020 exterior the previous workplaces in Paris of the Charlie Hebdo satirical journal.

The suspects are accused of legal affiliation with a world terror group, and are suspected of belonging to a terror cell referred to as “Gabar Group” with direct hyperlinks to the attacker, Pakistani-born Zaher Hassan Mahmood, anti-terrorism investigators mentioned in a press release.

Mahmood, now 27 and in French custody, instructed investigators that he acted out of anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that had been lately republished by the weekly paper.

Two folks had been critically wounded within the stabbing, which occurred exterior the newspaper’s former workplaces the place Islamic extremists killed 12 folks in January 2015. The two brothers concerned within the 2015 assault focused Charlie Hebdo as a result of they believed the newspaper had blasphemed Islam by publishing the identical Muhammad caricatures.