Summary
Zaheer Mahmood, 29, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to murder two people with a meat cleaver outside Charlie Hebdo’s former Paris office in 2020.
Influenced by radical Pakistani preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Mahmood attacked two Premieres Lignes employees, mistaking the office for Charlie Hebdo’s, which had relocated after the 2015 al-Qaeda attack.
Five accomplices were jailed for supporting Mahmood. The victims, who suffered severe injuries, rejected Mahmood’s apology.
Mahmood, an illegal immigrant to France since 2017, was also convicted of terrorist conspiracy.
If it makes any of you feel any better, Rizvi also famously berrated and mocked Abdul Sattar Edhi for wasting his time making a volunteer ambulance service before he himself was transported in an Edhi ambulance where he died before reaching the hospital.