Pakistani man sent to jail for 30 years in France

Illegal immigrant from Pakistan attacked two persons with a knife in 2020.

PARIS: A Pakistani man has been sentenced to 30 years rigorous imprisonment for trying to murder two persons in front of a building that once housed the office of the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

The Pakistani man identified as Zahir Mahmood was under trial in a Paris court that has now sentenced him to 30 years in prison for the attempted murder.

According to the case, Mahmood carried out the attack on the two persons with a knife in 2020 in reaction to the publication of blasphemous content by the magazine in the year 2015.

He tried to kill the two persons thinking that the magazine office was still located in the building. He didn’t know that the magazine had already shifted its office to some other area. He attacked the two people with a knife and escaped and was later arrested.

Zahir, who hails from a rural area of Pakistan, had reached France illegally in 2019.

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