Knife attack near Charlie Hebdo's old office in Paris, seven suspects detained

 French authorities say seven people have been detained and are being questioned after a knife attack near the old office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two people were injured in the incident, which the French Interior Minister called a terrorist attack. According to reports so far, an 18-year-old man from Pakistan is being named as the main accused. He was arrested near the scene.

Police say six more people have been arrested in addition to the main suspect and are being investigated. The two injured include a man and a woman who work for a TV news production company. Police say he was severely wounded with a large knife-like weapon. The French prime minister told reporters at the scene that the lives of the injured were out of danger. The attack in France comes at a time when 14 people are on trial for facilitating two jihadists who attacked Charlie Hebdo's office in 2015. Twelve people were killed in the incident. Charlie Hebdo's office has since been relocated to a secret location.

"This is a bloody attack on our country and its journalists," he said in an interview with France Two. "This is the road where Charlie Hebdo used to be.

He says he has ordered law enforcement agencies to tighten security at all their places of worship on the occasion of a holy Jewish day this week.

The name of the main accused has not been revealed but the Home Minister has said that he came to France from Pakistan three years ago "as a lonely boy". He said there was no information on how the accused was taken to extremism but he had been arrested once in the past for having a patch. Companions of the injured say they were smoking outside the office when they were attacked.

The news channel's office is on the same street as Charlie Hebdo's old office. There are also photos of those killed in the 2015 incident in the same area.

One of his colleagues said on condition of anonymity: "I was looking out the window to see one of my colleagues bleeding and a man chasing him with a knife. "Both were seriously injured," the channel's founder, Paul Moreira, told AFP. Police quickly sealed off the area and found a knife nearby. Metro stations and five schools in the area were closed immediately. The schools reopened a few hours later. Police say they arrested the main suspect shortly afterwards. A man from Algeria is said to have been detained shortly afterwards. Five more people of Pakistani descent were detained in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. According to French media, the police said that these arrests were made during a search of the house of the main accused.

Charlie Hebdo expressed sympathy for his former neighbor's office in a tweet.

Charlie Hebdo published a controversial cartoon about the Prophet of Islam, which opened a new trial. Protests erupted in several Muslim countries after the cartoons were published, while al-Qaeda once again threatened the magazine. The head of Human Resources in the magazine says he received death threats after which he moved home. Defendants in the case are accused of aiding and abetting a terrorist who shot and killed a female police officer and then attacked a Jewish man's shop, killing four more people. Was

Of the three, 17 were killed. Three of the attackers were killed by police. The killings were followed by a wave of terrorist attacks in France that killed more than 250 people. On January 7, 2015, two French Muslims opened fire on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris. The attack killed four prominent cartoonists, including the magazine's editor. The attackers were later killed by security personnel after an extensive search. They killed a total of eight journalists, two policemen, an employee and a guest. A few days later, in a similar attack in East Paris, an armed terrorist attacked a Jewish man's supermarket, killing three customers and a worker. Earlier, the attacker shot dead a female police officer in the city.Security forces eventually entered the supermarket, killed the assailant and freed the rest of the hostages.