ROME - In a significant development on Tuesday, Italian anti-terrorism police and Europol arrested some Pakistani suspects in connection with the 2020 attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The operation resulted in the arrest of "Pakistani nationals in Italy and abroad, directly related to Zaheer Hassan Mahmood, who attacked two people with a knife."
Italian police say Mahmoud's attack comes just weeks after the magazine republished controversial sketches of the Prophet Muhammad.
He did not say how many people were arrested.
The European Counterterrorism Center in Europol coordinated the operation with the French and Spanish counterterrorism police, according to police in the northwestern Italian city of Genoa, where a judge sentenced 14 people to life in prison for "international terrorism". Arrest warrants have been signed.
The local newspaper Il Secolo XIX in Genoa reported that "at least eight arrest warrants have been executed in Italy against members of the Islamic extremist network." Who were planning attacks.
The investigation began in Genoa because one of the suspects lived in the area, but over the months "wire tapping, calling, isolating suspects and comparing numerous statements with police in other countries" led to the arrests of Italy and France. Other parts exposed other members of the gang. . And Spain.
He added that interrogations of other people with alleged links to the victims of Tuesday's bite were still ongoing.
Mahmoud wounded two people during the 2020 attack, which came five years later when 12 employees of the satirical weekly were killed for publishing cartoons that many Muslims deem insulting.
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