A message of support from "Charlie Hebdo" to its "former neighbors and colleagues". On Friday, a man and a woman from the Premier Lines agency, which collaborates in particular with the program “Cash Investigation”, smoked a cigarette in the street in front of their premises when they were targeted by an individual and injured in the process. 'White weapon. Their offices are located in the same building as the former editorial staff of "Charlie Hebdo", which was partially decimated in 2015 in a terrorist attack. "Charlie's entire team brings its support and solidarity to its former neighbors and frontline colleagues and to those affected by this odious attack," reacted the satirical newspaper on Twitter.
"There is no question of giving in to deadly logic"
The whole 'Charlie Hebdo' team can only condemn this despicable act and support the victims in this ordeal. This tragic episode demonstrates once again that fanaticism and intolerance, the origins of which will be revealed to us by investigation, are still present in French society, ”added the publication in a statement, believing that this kind of attacks, "far from terrorizing us", "should make us even more combative in the defense of our values". "There is no question of giving in anything to the deadly and criminal logic of the ideologies which motivate these acts, and of which the thinkers, the designers are nothing other than fascists", writes the newspaper which calls to “continue to fight for our ideas and our values”.
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This attack comes in the midst of the trial of the murderous attack that targeted "Charlie Hebdo" in January 2015, and a few days after an opinion piece of 100 French media which support the satirical weekly, target of new threats after the republication of the caricatures of Muhammad on September 2.
Present at the scene of the attack on Friday afternoon, Prime Minister Jean Castex said that the lives of the two hospitalized victims "are not in danger". Two suspects were arrested, while the national anti-terrorism prosecution announced that it had been investigated for "attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise".