Manhunt for Paris shooting suspects
Members of the French police intervention carry out searches in Fleury, northern France, on January 8, 2015 as part of an investigation into a deadly attack the day before by armed gunmen on the Paris offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
A huge manhunt for two brothers suspected of massacring 12 people in an Islamist attack at a satirical French weekly zeroed in on a northern town on January 8 after the discovery of one of the getaway cars. As thousands of police tightened their net, the country marked a rare national day of mourning for the Jan. 7 attack at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, the worst terrorist attack in France in half a century.
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French police identified Cherif Kouachi, left, and his brother Said Kouachi, along with 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, as suspects in the attack on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 in Paris, France.
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French special intervention police conduct a house-to-house search in Longpont, northeast of Paris, Jan. 8, 2015.
The search for Paris attackers
Members of French special police forces of Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) are seen at the scene of a shooting in the street of Montrouge near Paris, Jan. 8, 2015.
A policewoman was killed in a shootout in southern Paris on Thursday, triggering searches in the area as the manhunt widened for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a satirical magazine in an apparent Islamist militant strike. Police sources could not immediately confirm a link with the killings at Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper which marked the worst attack on French soil for decades and which national leaders and allied states described as an assault on democracy.
The search for Paris attackers
Members of French special police forces of Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) are seen at the scene of a shooting in the street of Montrouge near Paris, Jan. 8, 2015.
The search for Paris attackers
French special intervention police conduct a house-to-house search in Longpont, northeast of Paris, Jan. 8, 2015. French anti-terrorism police converged on an area northeast of Paris on Thursday after two brothers suspected of being behind an attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were spotted at a gas station in Villers-Cotterets in the region. France's prime minister said on Thursday he feared the Islamist militants who killed 12 people could strike again as a manhunt for two men widened across the country.
The search for Paris attackers
French gendarmes patrol on a bridge as they survey the A1 motorway near Survilliers, near Paris, Jan. 8, 2015 as part of the highest level of "Vigipirate" security plan.
The search for Paris attackers
A Gendarmerie cordon is seen at a gas station in Villers-Cotterets, north-east of Paris, Jan. 8, 2015, where armed suspects from the attack on French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo were spotted in a car.
French police extended a manhunt on Thursday for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in a presumed Islamist militant strike that national leaders and allied states described as an assault on democracy. France began a day of mourning for the journalists and police officers shot dead on Wednesday morning by black-hooded gunmen using Kalashnikov assault rifles. French tricolor flags flew at half mast throughout the country.
The search for Paris attackers
A member of the French GIPN intervention police forces secure a neighbourhood in Corcy, northeast of Paris, Jan. 8, 2015. French anti-terrorism police converged on an area northeast of Paris on Thursday after two brothers suspected of being behind an attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were spotted at a petrol station in Villers-Cotterets in the region. France's prime minister said on Thursday he feared the Islamist militants who killed 12 people could strike again as a manhunt for two men widened across the country.
The search for Paris attackers
Police are seen during an operation in the "Croix-Rouge" suburb of Reims, northern France early January 8, 2015 following the attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that left 12 dead in Paris.
French police are hunting three men, including two brothers, suspected of carrying out the attack , a source close to the investigation told AFP. Police are searching for two brothers in their thirties, including one who was sent to prison in 2008 for participating in jihadist networks attempting to send fighters to Iraq. The third suspect is aged 18, the source added.
The search for Paris attackers
Police are seen during an operation in the "Croix-Rouge" suburb of Reims, northern France early January 8, 2015 following the attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that left 12 dead in Paris. French police are hunting three men, including two brothers, suspected of carrying out the attack , a source close to the investigation told AFP. Police are searching for two brothers in their thirties, including one who was sent to prison in 2008 for participating in jihadist networks attempting to send fighters to Iraq. The third suspect is aged 18, the source added.
The search for Paris attackers
Police are seen during an operation in the "Croix-Rouge" suburb of Reims, northern France early January 8, 2015 following the attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that left 12 dead in Paris.
The search for Paris attackers
Members of the French national police intervention group (BRI) prepare to enter a hotel as they carry out searches in the vicinity of where a female police officer was shot dead in Montrouge, a southern suburb of Paris on January 8, 2015, a day after Islamist gunmen stormed the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing eight journalists, two police and two others. A policewoman who was shot by a gunman wearing a bullet-proof vest just outside Paris has died and a second victim is in serious condition, police said on January 8. The man escaped after the attack on Thursday morning, which comes just a day after a deadly Islamist assault on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 12 dead, although no link has yet been established between the two incidents.
The search for Paris attackers
Members of the French national police intervention group (BRI) prepare to enter a hotel as they carry out searches in the vicinity of where a female police officer was shot dead in Montrouge, a southern suburb of Paris on January 8, 2015, a day after Islamist gunmen stormed the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing eight journalists, two police and two others. A policewoman who was shot by a gunman wearing a bullet-proof vest just outside Paris has died and a second victim is in serious condition, police said on January 8. The man escaped after the attack on Thursday morning, which comes just a day after a deadly Islamist assault on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 12 dead, although no link has yet been established between the two incidents.
The search for Paris attackers
Members of the French national police intervention group (BRI) prepare to carry out searches in the vicinity of where a female police officer was shot dead in Montrouge, a southern suburb of Paris on January 8, 2015, a day after Islamist gunmen stormed the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing eight journalists, two police and two others. A policewoman who was shot by a gunman wearing a bullet-proof vest just outside Paris has died and a second victim is in serious condition, police said on January 8. The man escaped after the attack on Thursday morning, which comes just a day after a deadly Islamist assault on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 12 dead, although no link has yet been established between the two incidents.
The search for Paris attackers
The logo of France's new national security alert system "Vigipirate" has been placed at the entrance of the city hall in Bordeaux, on January 8, 2015, after an attack by armed gunmen on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7 which left at least 12 dead and many others injuried. A stunned and outraged France was in mourning as security forces hunted two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack.
The search for Paris attackers
Members of GIPN , the French national police intervention group, arrive at the police station in Charleville Mezieres in northeastern France following a deadly attack in Paris on the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, on January 7, 2014. French police mounted a frantic manhunt January 7th for at least two masked men who screamed "Allahu akbar" as they gunned down 12 people at a satirical weekly, in an attack that prompted vigils across Europe. France's Muslim leadership sharply condemned the shooting at the Paris satirical weekly that left at least 12 people dead as a "barbaric" attack and an assault on press freedom and democracy.