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Italy arrests Pakistanis linked to 2020 Charlie Hebdo attack

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Al-Araby

Italy’s anti-terrorism police and Europol on Tuesday arrested Pakistanis suspected of links to the man who attacked two people near the former offices of France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in 2020. The sting led to “arrests in Italy and abroad of Pakistani citizens with direct ties” to Zaheer Hassan Mahmood, a Pakistani man who attacked two people with a meat cleaver weeks after the magazine republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Italian police said. It did not say how many were arrested. Italian counter #terrorism police from #Genova carried out a operation investigating 14 …

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