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- Kouachi brothers, two suspects
The alleged perpetrators of the massacre have been formally identified. Said Kouachi had forgotten his ID card in the first car that allowed them to escape in Paris after the attack on the newspaper. It was then “formally recognized photo as aggressor” , according to the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve.
After police operations in Reims (Marne) and Charleville Mezieres (Ardennes) the day before, the large police to suspect packages and brother Sharif – over 88 000 staff – was deployed in Picardy, where the level “attack alert” the Vigipirate was triggered .
The two men were first spotted about 9 am 30 near Villers-Cotterets (Aisne), where they shine a, with unveiled face, an Avia petrol station on the National 2.
Then it was the turn of the village of Corey, contiguous to Villers-Cotterêt, to be invested by a growing number of police officers of the Task Force of the National Police (IFNU). These funds have combed through all the houses with the help of a helicopter.
The people of the town were asked to go home and be locked with a key while closing their component , according to testimony. “This is a manhunt” , which acknowledged a police officer.
The intervention forces were then rushed into the forest of Longpont, where they remained several hours to leave between 21 h 30 and 22 hours. If the device has night more discreet, but still very important. The police did not deliver information on current operations, in the night of Thursday to Friday 8 January 9th.
- The investigation is progressing , gray areas persist
Meanwhile in search of suspects on the ground, the Ministry of the Interior has given more details of profile Kouachi of brothers. Sharif was known to have been a prominent member of the “chain of Buttes-Chaumont,” which sent the candidates for jihad in Iraq between 2004 and 2006. He was imprisoned from January 2005 to September 2006 in Fleury-Merogis , where he met Djamel Beghal, a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for masterminding a planned attack in 2001 against the US embassy in Paris.
For his part, Saïd “domiciled in Reims” and “unemployed” , “has never been prosecuted or convicted, but appeared on the outskirts of court cases.”
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“Several searches” were conducted at the home of Said Kouachi and in several of his relatives. “Nine people are currently placed in custody” , in the Place Beauvau. They are particularly asked about possible points of fall of fugitives. A young man of 18, a family member of the two suspects on suspicion of involvement in the attack, was questioned and no charges were brought against him.
According to our information, one of the cars used by the two brothers was found in Paris on Wednesday with an empty board Kalashnikov charger, ten Molotov cocktails, a flashing light and a black flag bearing a jihadist registration (that of the Islamic state is the same as the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, investigators interpret “either one way or the other” ).
More than 90 witnesses were heard and “meticulous investigations on telephony and Internet” are underway, including videos that circulated. According to the Ministry, the brothers “had been monitoring” , but “no incriminating evidence that could lead to the opening of a judicial inquiry had been raised to against them “.
- A police killed in Montrouge, no connection with the attack
Thursday at 8 am, a municipal police of twenty years was killed by a heavily armed man south of Paris. A road worker was also seriously injured in the shooting, the author is still at large.
No link is established with the time for the attack against Charlie Hebdo, , but the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor has, however, before the investigation . Two people were taken into custody, and the author of the shots “is still actively sought”
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