Jaag Masihi News World June 08, 2022
Italy's anti-terrorism police and the European Union's Europol have arrested a number of Pakistani nationals in connection with the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French freedom-loving magazine, two years ago.
It should be noted that in 2020, 18-year-old Muslim youth Zaheer Hassan Mahmood, a Pakistani citizen, stabbed two people. He described his actions as the result of a magazine publishing sketches of freedom of speech.
Five years earlier, on January 7, 2015, two Muslims in France opened fire on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris over the publication of the same sketches. Twelve people, including the magazine's editor and four well-known cartoonists, were killed in the attack.
According to AFP news agency, a few Pakistanis from Italy and other countries were detained during the operation on Tuesday, who are accused of having a direct relationship with Zaheer Hassan Mahmood and of planning the attacks. had been.
Authorities have not yet released the number of people arrested.
The result of months of investigation
Europol's European counter-terrorism center took part in the operation in Italy, including France and Spain. Police in Genoa, Italy, told AFP that a judge had signed 14 arrest warrants on international terrorism charges.
According to the local Genoa newspaper Secolo, "at least eight people arrested in Italy were part of an Islamic extremist network that was planning attacks."
According to AFP, the investigation into the whole affair began in Genoa, where one of the accused was living. According to the Geneva-based local newspaper Secolo, the suspect was pursued for months and wire tapes were used, during which the data obtained was sent to police in other countries. The investigation revealed the presence of other members of the terrorist group in France and Spain, as well as in other parts of Italy.
According to the newspaper, interrogation of those arrested on Tuesday is underway and it is also being determined whether there are more members of this gang or not.
Why was Charlie Hebdo targeted?
Charlie Hebdo is a French weekly magazine which, based on freedom of speech, captures various references in cartoons or sketches for the betterment of its society, criticizing the government and the establishment.
But since the publication of the Prophet Muhammad's sketches, his journalists and staff have been receiving threats and in 2011 petrol bombs were hurled at him.
Its editor defended the publication of the sketches as a symbol of freedom of expression. He told a US news agency in 2012 that "they live under French law, not under the law of the Muslim book, the Qur'an."
Following the incident, there was a strong reaction from Muslims to the publication of the sketches.
According to Muslims, any image or portrait of their prophet of Islam is forbidden and is considered highly reprehensible, and they consider it their religious duty to kill someone without thinking.
What happened in 2015?
On January 7, 2015, two Muslim brothers, Muhammad Saad and Muhammad Sharif Kawachi, broke into Charlie Hebdo's office and opened fire, killing Stephen Scherbonnier, the newspaper's editor, four cartoonists, two columnists and a The copy editor and a guest who was there at the time were killed. The editor's bodyguard and a policeman were also killed in the attack.
Another incident took place in the eastern part of Paris when police began searching for the attackers, who were eventually killed. Muhammad Ahmadi Kolabli, a terrorist who was an accomplice of the Kawachi Brothers terrorists, killed a female police officer and took several people hostage. He killed four Jews at a Jewish supermarket on January 9 and was killed in an exchange of fire with police.
In a video recording, Ahmadi said he carried out the attack in the name of the Islamic State terrorist organization.
Attack in 2020
In France, in 2020, Charlie Hebdo continued his right to freedom of expression and published sketches, after which a young man with Pakistani citizenship attacked a few people outside Charlie Hebdo's former office.
The attack comes at a time when 14 people are on trial for facilitating two suspects in the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo's office. Twelve people were killed in the incident.
Charlie Hebdo's office was moved to a secret location following the incident.
The main suspect was not named in 2020, but the then French interior minister said he had come to France "as a lonely boy" from Pakistan three years earlier.
In fact, these people enter France and Europe in the name of asylum and then carry out terrorist acts and try to spread fear by killing innocent people in order to establish their ignorance. Peace and security there. Their plan is to destroy what they call jihad. If Europe and France do not consider this and do not stop these people from entering forever, they will not be able to stop their hypocrisy and ignorance in the future.
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