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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