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Charlie Hebdo Sets Date for Next Issue Suspect in Attack on French Soldiers Is Arrested
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PARIS — The next issue of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper that was the target of an attack in Paris last month that left 12 people dead, will be released at the end of the month, a staff member said Monday evening. PARIS — The French police on Tuesday arrested a man believed to have attacked and wounded three soldiers who were guarding a Jewish community center in the southern city of Nice, prosecutors said, heightening anxieties just weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris shook the country.
“Finally! A bit of patience. But Charlie Hebdo will come out on February 25th. So see you in every good newsstand!” Laurent Léger, a journalist for Charlie Hebdo and the left-wing newspaper Libération, wrote in a Twitter post. The soldiers were patrolling in the city center, near a Jewish community center housing a Jewish radio station, when a knife-wielding attacker “rushed at the throat of one of the soldiers,” Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, said in a telephone interview. The soldier escaped, and his face was slightly injured, he said. The same attacker, Mr. Estrosi said, cut the arm of another soldier. News reports said the attacker was arrested after trying to flee on foot.
Mr. Léger, who escaped the shooting at Charlie Hebdo’s offices last month by hiding under a table, did not say whether the cover of the next issue would include anything like the provocative images of the Prophet Muhammad that made the newspaper a target of Islamic extremists or provide any detail about the subject matter. President François Hollande issued a statement condemning the attack “with the greatest firmness.”
“We will be guided by news,” he said by telephone on Tuesday. “We are trying to revive the paper. We are recovering. But we still have injured people among our staff members and we think about them.” Mr. Hollande said officials would “shed light on the motivations and circumstances of this criminal act.”
On Jan. 7, two gunmen forced their way into the Paris office of the weekly newspaper, which was founded in 1970, and killed some of its most well-known cartoonists and writers. The attacker, who was identified as Moussa Coulibaly, was known to the French police and “had been convicted for minor offenses,” said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, the spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor.
The first issue of Charlie Hebdo after the attack depicted the bearded prophet shedding a tear and holding up a sign that said “I am Charlie,” the rallying cry that emerged as a symbol of free speech after the attacks. Many Muslims, however, considered Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of the prophet as an offense to their religion. Though the suspect had the same surname as Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed four people at a kosher supermarket in Paris last month, the authorities said it was unclear whether the two were related or whether they knew each other.
Demand for the post-attack issue was so intense that seven million copies of the newspaper were printed, compared with the usual press run of 60,000, although plans for the next issue were unclear. On Tuesday, the newspaper Le Monde said Moussa Coulibaly had aroused the attention of the police after he flew to Turkey on Jan. 28. Turkey has been used as a gateway for people seeking to enter Syria. But the Turkish authorities sent him back to France at the request of French intelligence officials.
Separately, the French authorities said on Tuesday that they had arrested eight people who were believed to be involved in a recruitment network for would-be jihadists hoping to fight in Syria and Iraq. While the soldiers in Nice were not thought to be seriously wounded, news of the assault raised the alarm in a country still reeling after last month's terrorist attacks, at a satirical newspaper as well as the Jewish supermarket, left 17 people dead.
The suspects did not appear to have been linked to the attackers who killed 17 people, including the Charlie Hebdo employees, last month in a three-day onslaught in the Paris area. In the aftermath of the attacks, the French government has increased security across the country, deploying thousands of soldiers and police officers to guard sites considered vulnerable, including Jewish schools, in what the Defense Ministry has called “the first mobilization on this scale on our territory.” About 10,000 soldiers have been deployed to “sensitive sites,” including tourist attractions, major buildings and airports and railroad stations.
The display of resolve by the government, still grappling with why it was unable to thwart January’s attacks, has been accompanied by tough measures against hate speech as well as an intensifying clamp-down on the recruitment of French citizens, more than 1,000 of whom left or planned to go last year to fight in Iraq and Syria.
That effort to root out jihadist recruitment networks continued Tuesday when French counterterrorism officers arrested eight people in the northern suburbs of Paris and in the Lyon region. They were suspected of being part of a network recruiting people to fight in Syria, the Interior Ministry said.
Those arrests followed the arrests of five people last week in the southern town of Lunel, where counterterrorism forces have been seeking to dismantle a recruitment network that has sent young people to Syria and Iraq. Over the past year, more than 10 young people left Lunel for Syria to join the Islamic State, and several have died in Syria or Iraq, according to the Interior Ministry.
Separately, Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper that was targeted last month, said on Tuesday that it would release its next issue on Feb. 25.
Laurent Léger, a journalist for Charlie Hebdo and the left-wing Libération newspaper who escaped the shooting on Jan. 7 by hiding under a table, did not say whether the new cover of the issue would include any provocative images of the Prophet Muhammad.
“We will be guided by news,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday. “We are trying to revive the paper. We are recovering. But we still have injured people among our staff members, and we think about them.”