The man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to kill two people with a meat knife in front of the former Charlie Hebdo 2020 Paris Office.
Zaheer Mahmood, 29, of Pakistan, attacked and severely wounded two employees of the Premieres Lignes news agency, a few days after Charlie Hebdo re -published a caricature depicting the prophet Muhammad.
He did not know that Charlie Hebdo moved the offices to a secret location after 12 people were killed there in an armed attack, for which the responsibility was taken over by the al-Qaid after the original Corkature Revelation of 2015.
Mahmood was convicted of attempted murder and a terrorist conspiracy. He will be forbidden to enter France when he serves his sentence.
Five other Pakistani, some of whom were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime committed, were sentenced to between three and 12 years in prison on charges of a terrorist conspiracy for supporting Mahmooda.
The trial was held in court for minors in Paris for their age.
The court heard that Mahmood had planned his attack after Charlie Hebdo re -published his cartooning of the Prophet in September 2020. To mark the beginning of the trial for some of the responsible for the 2015 massacre.
The court was told that Mahmood was influenced by the radical Pakistani preacher to Khadim Hussain Rizvija, who invited him to “revenge the prophet”.
Armed with a meat knife, he arrived at the former Hebda offices in the 11th district of the French capital, and attacked and seriously wounded two employees of the Premieres Lignes news agency, which has offices nearby.
The witnesses at the time described how they saw their colleagues “Classified as a man with a machete”.
His victims, a woman named “Helena”, 32, and a 37-year-old man, were present at the sentencing, but did not comment on her outcome.
Neither accepted Mahmo’s petitions for forgiveness.
“It broke something in me,” the 37-year-old said, as he told the court about his long rehabilitation process.
Mahmood arrived illegally in France in 2017, although he initially claimed he had arrived in 2019. He also lied about his years, claiming he was 18 years old.
Mahmood’s defense attorney, Alberic de Gayardon, said his client lived and worked with Pakistani and felt unrelated to France.
“He doesn’t speak French, he lives with Pakistani, works for Pakistani,” Mr. Gayardon added. “He never left Pakistan in his head.”
