Chopper attack targeting Charlie Hebdo in Paris: 30 years in prison required for the assailant

Zaheer Mahmood, a Pakistani from Punjab, was 26 years old when he committed this attack on rue Nicolas-Appert (Paris 11th), thinking of attacking members of the Charlie Hebdo editorial staff, while the editorial staff was decimated by the 2015 massacre had moved.

For this ultra-violent attack with a chopper, which left two very seriously injured in September 2020, the attacker, now aged 29, now risks 30 years in prison, after the prosecution's requisitions fell this Tuesday evening.

“We noted an incontestable desire to kill blasphemers by targeting the neck and face to respond to the backward ideology to which he subscribed,” declared one of the attorneys general during his indictment, recalling that the attack of 25 September 2020 was the inaugural attack of fall 2020, a few weeks before the assassination of Samuel Paty and the attack against the basilica of Nice.

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