Police manhunt underway after 12 killed in attack on offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
REUTERS - The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police for a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed 12 people at a satirical magazine on Wednesday turned himself into police, an official at the Paris prosecutor's office said.
Several people linked to two other suspected attackers were also in custody, the news agency AFP reported. Police issued a document to forces across the region saying the men were being sought for murder in relation to the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Cherif Kouachi (L), 32, and his brother Said Kouachi, 34 |
The document, reviewed by a Reuters correspondent, named them as Said Kouachi, born in 1980, Cherif Kouachi, born in 1982, both from Paris, and Hamyd Mourad, born in 1996.
A police source said one of them had been identified by his identity card, which had been left in the getaway car. An official at the Paris prosecutor's office said the youngest of the three had turned himself in at a police station in Charleville-Mיziטres, some 230 kilometres northeast of Paris near the Belgium border.
Unidentified sources, said the man had decided to go to the police after seeing his name in social media.
The police source said Cherif Kouachi had previously been tried on terrorism charges and served 18 months in prison. He was charged with criminal association related to a terrorist enterprise in 2005. He had been part of an Islamist cell that enlisted French nationals from a mosque in eastern Paris to go to Iraq to fight Americans in Iraq. He was arrested before leaving for Iraq to join militants.
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