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The trial of Algerian student Sid-Ahmed Ghlam, accused of planning an attack against a church in April 2015 in Villejuif, southern Paris, and of having killed Aurélie Châtelain there, opens at the Special Assize Court of Paris. IMAGES
Paris, Sep 25 (EFE, (Camera: Ángel Calvo).- A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a knife attack near the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.The incident is being investigated by anti-terrorism police.Two people were seriously injured in the attack but their lives are not at risk, police sources told Efe.The suspected perpetrator was detained in the nearby Bastille area of the French capital.A second person was arrested later for alleged involvement in the incident.French prosecutor Rémy Heitz told the press that a terror investigation has been opened due to the location of the attack and because it was carried out while the trial for a 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo is being held.The prosecutor's office did not provide details about the detainees but French media have reported the main suspect is 18 years old and has a criminal record.FOOTAGE OF FRENCH PM JEAN CASTEX AND JEAN-FRANÇOIS RICARD, HEAD OF FRANCE'S ANTI-TERRORISM PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE.
Images from the "Les Sablons" school where a 15-year-old teenager was beaten up by several people on Thursday afternoon as he left his secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris, and has since been hospitalised with a life-threatening condition. IMAGES
A man suspected of stabbing several people at the Gare de Lyon in Paris has been arrested, according to a provisional report from the Préfecture de Police. Images filmed at Gare de Lyon after the attack. IMAGES
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
"The issue isn't pyschiatry, the issue is radical Islam" says Jordan Bardella, the President of France's far-right party National Rally at a presser two days after a knife attack in Paris left one person dead and two injured. SOUNDBITE