PARIS: Twenty-five-year-old Pakistan-born Zaher Hassan Mahmood, accused of double stabbing outside the former offices of French weekly Charlie, has been handed preliminary terrorism charges.
The counter-terrorism prosecutor’s office informed that he has been handed (by investigating magistrates) the preliminary charges of attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise.
Sources have told that the accused would remain in custody pending further investigation. It is pertinent to mention here that his relatives and associates, who were arrested few days ago, have been allowed to go home sans any charge.
During the interrogation suspect Zaher Hassan Mahmood said that he did not belong to any group and acted individually out of anger over blasphemous caricatures ran by Hebdo recently.
