On Friday morning, the French authorities informed that the brothers Kouachi – responsible for the attack in the editorial “Charlie Hebdo” – barricaded themselves in a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goële. They took one hostage, they were surrounded by police. The operation would lead to “neutralize” assassins. Secured the whole area nearby, called for to not go with the houses, schools were closed.
Dammartin-en-Goële is 40 km from Paris and 20 km from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Another shooting in Paris
In the afternoon on Friday armed man took at least five hostages in a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris. According to unofficial information provided by the AFP in a shooting killed two people.
According to the French police sources, there is also a link between jihadists suspected of assassination in the editorial “Charlie Hebdo”, the murder of a police officer which took place on Thursday and Friday shooting in eastern Paris. Forward responsible for the shooting is a friend today Kouachi brothers and according to recent reports, calls for their release.
The Assassination of Paris
The terrorists raided the editorial offices of the French satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo” January 7, 2015 r. They killed 12 people – ten journalists and two policemen – in retaliation for obśmiewanie the journal Abu Bakr al-Baghdadiego, the leader of the Islamic State. The editors took just everyday college.
bombers – brothers and Cherif Said Kouachi – fled from the scene, shouting the word “Allah Akbar”. They were armed with Kalashnikovs and masked. Service lost their trail in and around the Buttes Chaumont park, where he abandoned the car.
identified them yet January 7 late in the evening. The part in the assassination suspect is still Hamyd Mourad, 18-year-old, who voluntarily gave himself up to the police when he saw his name in the media. He claimed that at the time of the attack he was in school. This version of events testified to his friends.
On Thursday Kouachi brothers attacked the gas station in Villers-Cotterêt in northern France.
According to AFP terrorist action was thought out and carefully prepared. The perpetrators could have a military background.
“I am shocked that such an attack could occur in France, which is a secular republic” – commented Gerard Biard, editor of the weekly “Charlie Hebdo”, which at the time he was assassinated in London. French President François Hollande has called the incident “a terrorist attack.”
From the victims of the attack on the “Charlie Hebdo” sympathetic to people from all over the world. Organized demonstrations and protests, spoke leaders. Cartoonists, artists, professional and amateur drawings available on the Internet related to the event, and condemning the attack on freedom of speech. “Je suis Charlie” (I’m Charlie) – write netizens as a sign of solidarity.
Who are the perpetrators
The 34-year-old Said Kouachi in 2011. Lived in Yemen for religious studies. Then he had to make contact with the Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki and undergo training in the camp of Al-Qaeda – Reuters reported, citing a source in the Yemeni history.
However, according to information that has reached “Washington Post”, the younger brother, 32-year-old Kouachi Cherif, was drawn into the stream of radical Islam by Farid Benyettou that urządzał military training for minor criminals, which recruited to fight in Iraq. Yet in 2005. Cherif was one of the heroes of reportage from the “Pieces and Convictions”, which presented rather as a fan of rap and “supporter of pretty girls” than walking to the mosque.
The two brothers, the origin Algerians, but holding French citizenship, for several years, were on the “black list” of American services and were banned from entering the territory of the United States.
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