Two seriously injured in a knife attack in Paris

At least two people were seriously injured in a stabbing attack in Paris near the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, as confirmed by Prime Minister Jean Castex.
According to French media, the two wounded worked for the production agency Premiere Lines, and are in a "serious" state, said the Paris Police Prefecture.

According to the French authorities, a suspect was arrested shortly after the attack in the 11th district, the Bastille area of the French capital. 
The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation for "attempted murder with terrorist intent" and "criminal terrorist association", according to Le Monde.

Rémy Heitz, the Paris public prosecutor, has already announced the start of an investigation into the "assassination attempt", according to the French news agency AFP. At first it was thought that the attack had been committed by two people and four were injured, but the police have rectified this and specified that the perpetrator of the attack is acting individually and there are two victims of the event.

he French police's Brigade d'Investigation et d'Intervention (BRI) has already set out and extended the security perimeter around the scene after finding a suspicious package, which according to the French media contains no explosives.

Ariel Weil, the government's head of central Paris, wrote on his personal Twitter account that all schools in the 3rd and 4th arrondissements will be closed and that the children in them will be kept inside. 

The 11th arrondissement is home to the satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo', which was the target of an attack on 7 January 2015 that killed twelve people, including some of the magazine's cartoonists and the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi. Rue Nicoles-Appert, where the magazine's premises were located, according to Le Monde, remains blocked and a security perimeter has been set up around the former Charlie Hebdo premises.

The trial for this attack began on 2 September and is scheduled to last until 10 November. On the occasion of this trial, the satirical magazine once again published the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The terrorist organisation al-Qaeda saw this publication as another provocation and threatened the magazine again in its propaganda medium 'Una Umma': "If your freedom of expression does not respect any limits, prepare to face the freedom of our actions," the organisation warned.