Two people were stabbed near Charlie Hebdo's headquarters in Paris

The victims are found in hospital in serious condition, hit by a knife or other blade. The area has been closed and the police have already identified two suspects, who are now in custody

(photo: Alain Jocard / Afp / Getty Images) In Paris, around 12.30 on 25 September, four people were injured with a cutting weapon. The attack, the reasons for which are not yet known, took place near the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper which in 2015 was the victim of a terrorist attack in which 12 people died. According to French Prime Minister Jean Castex, the injured were transported to hospital, but two of the four are in serious condition. From an initial reconstruction provided by some French newspapers, two victims are employees of the Premières Lignes television production company and one of them, a woman, was shot while she was in rue Nicolas-Appert, a street adjacent to the newspaper's headquarters there is a mural commemorating the victims of the terrorist attack. Police have identified two suspects, now in custody. This was announced by sources of the judiciary, stating that they had opened an investigation for attempted murder for terrorist purposes.

The French government has already armored the area, activating a crisis unit and closing schools. The police also asked citizens to stay away from the neighborhood as it could still be a dangerous theater. Le Monde reports that the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for "attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal terrorist association". Some media talked about the discovery of a suspicious package, but police sources, cited by France Info, denied this discovery.

The hypothesis that the location of the attack is not just a coincidence - especially a few weeks before the trial of the accomplices of the terrorists who organized the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket in November of five years ago - is supported by Paul Moreira, one of the executives of the Première Ligne production company, who explained to France Info that whoever injured the four people "did not come there by chance".