A police source has said that the arrested man in Paris linked with the wounding o f two people with a meat cleaver, said he was targeting weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in the attack.

Recall that the two people were attacked on Friday in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo, where militants shot dead 12 people in 2015 because the magazine had published cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad.

The attack coincided with the start of this month’s trial of 14 alleged accomplices in the 2015 attack, in which the gunmen killed 12 people.

On the day before the trial, Charlie Hebdo had republished the cartoons.

The suspected attacker, who was from Pakistan but arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, was cooperating with the Police, the police source said.

According to a judicial source, the suspect’s custody had been extended on Saturday morning. Under French law, he faced a formal investigation at the end of the process.

A suspected collaborator was released on Saturday but three others were arrested, including the suspected assailant’s brother.

As at Saturday evening, nine people were in custody including the suspected attacker. The second suspect was also apprehended moments after the attack and prosecutors were trying to establish his relation to the attacker and was released without being charged, the source disclosed.

Charlie Hebdo had relocated to a secret abode after the 2015 attack. Its former offices are now used by a television production company.

Prosecutors and a colleague of the victims said two members of the production company’s staff, a man and a woman, were in the street having a cigarette break when they were attacked.

Al Qaeda, the militant group that claimed responsibility for the 2015 attack, threatened to attack Charlie Hebdo again after it he published the cartoons of the Prophet again.