Zaheer Mahmood, a 29-year-old man from Pakistan, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to murder two employees of the Premieres Lignes news agency with a meat cleaver outside the former Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. The attack occurred in 2020, shortly after Charlie Hebdo republished cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Mahmood was influenced by radical preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi and was convicted of attempted murder and terrorist conspiracy. Five other Pakistani men received sentences for supporting him. The victims were present at the sentencing but did not forgive Mahmood.