An alleged partner of a guy suspected of attacking and wounding two other people with a butcher’s knife on Open Friday in the construction of a workplace in Paris was released, a judicial source told reporters.
Another user close to the alleged shooter, believed to be a former roommate at a hotel north of Paris, had been arrested after a series of other arrests Friday night, he said.
Yesterday morning, seven other people remained in custody, adding the alleged attacker.
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The alleged attacker was cooperating with the police, a police source said.
The attack took an outdoor position from a construction site where Muslim activists shot dead workers from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015.
This coincided with the start this month of the trial of 14 suspected accomplices to the 2015 attack, in which gunmen killed 12 people.
On Friday, police temporarily arrested the man suspected of carrying out the knife attack next to the stairs of an opera space about 500 meters away.
The alleged attacker was originally from Pakistan and arrived in France three years ago as an uncompanied minor, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
A suspicious moment arrested moments after the attack and prosecutors sought to identify their relationship with the attacker.
He broke free without charge, the source said.
Charlie Hebdo left his offices after the 2015 attack and is now in a secret location. Construction is now used through a television production company.
Two members of the production company, a boy and a woguy, were on the street taking a break to smoke when they were attacked, according to prosecutors and a colleague of the victims.
After the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, investigators said activists sought revenge on the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in the magazine. Charlie Hebdo republished the cartoons on the eve of the trial.
Al-Qaeda, the militant extremist organization that claimed its duty in the 2015 attack, threatened to attack Charlie Hebdo after republishing the cartoons.
France has noticed a wave of attacks through Muslim militants in years.
Bombings and shootings in November 2015 at the Bataclan theatre and paris sites killed 130 people, and in July 2016, a Muslim activist drove a truck to a crowd celebrating 14 July in Nice, killing 86 people.