Italian police on Tuesday made 14
arrests in an anti-terror raid on a Pakistani cell operating in
Italy and other European countries, judicial sources said.
The cell was allegedly linked to a wider network called the
Gabar Group, itself linked to Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, the
27-year-old Pakistani man who attacked the former offices of the
satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris in September 2020,
wounding two people with a cleaver.
Those arrested in Italy and abroad have been charged with
conspiracy to commit international terrorism.
Mahmoud went to Charlie Hebdo's former offices to punish them
for re-publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohamed for which 12
people were killed there in January 2015.
He did not know that the magazine had moved in the meantime.
He wounded two staffers of a press agency that had taken over
the offices, who had gone down into the street to smoke a
cigarette.
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