France - Machine Gun attack on magazine Charlie Hebdo #1

[southsleuth]

Very scary for me. My Niece and Nephew are living in France. They are cartoon artists.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Maybe the reporting is just so weird because it's the middle of the night over there.

 

[CARIIS]

Associated Press quoted Cherif Kouachi in 2008 as saying he'd been motivated by outrage at images of torture of Iraqi inmates at the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib. "I really believed in the idea," it quoted him as saying.

the men were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network. Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

NBC News on Wednesday night that two officers who had been assigned to protect Charbonnier for the past several years came down from an upper floor and intercepted the gunmen. Both officers were shot, however, and one died at the scene. The other was wounded and is expected to survive.

flee in their Citroën van, three officers in a police patrol car intercepted them. Two suspects got out of the van, and one fired repeatedly into the windshield of the patrol car.

patrol car driver slammed the car into reverse, while another officer in the car returned fire at the shooter. The patrol car driver then hit the brakes, allowing an officer in the back seat to jump out and run toward the suspects. But the officer was shot and wounded by the suspects. He was executed with a shot to the head as he lay on the sidewalk.

January 2005, he and another French national were arrested in Paris as they were planning to fly to Iraq via Syria. Kouachi was described at the time as one of two deputies to the leader of an operation to send young volunteers to Iraq to fight U.S.-led forces. Authorities linked the operation to the 19th Arrondissement Network, named for the Paris district where it was based, which is home to many Muslim families with roots in France's former North African colonies. Kouachi was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to three years in prison, 18 months of which were suspended.

estimated 5 million Muslims.

called for a minute of silence at noon. Flags will fly at half-staff for three days. The government raised its terrorism threat level to its highest grade and announced that security forces would be deployed at media outlets, major shopping venues, sites of religious worship and transportation networks in the Paris region.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pa...ct-dead-two-custody-u-s-officials-say-n281761

just up the road from the Bastille monument on a grey, finger-numbingly cold day, nursery school teacher Jean-Paul, 56, was herding a group of young children up the road after a trip to the cinema.Suddenly he heard a ruckus from above. Looking up he saw several people leaning out of the window yelling at him to run and get the children out of there.
"We got out of there very fast. People were panicking, I heard shooting."
As he and the children scuttled off, horror unfolded inside the building as the gunmen fired off round after round,

A journalist whose offices are opposite those of Charlie Hebdo described "bodies on the ground, rivers of blood and people seriously injured," in an interview with iTELE news.

A playground and several creches are dotted around the area.
Outside one nursery school with a view of the scene, teaching assistants Carole and Lucille stand smoking cigarettes and discussing what happened.
"It is shocking. Like it was a movie. Another person who works here was outside and came running in and told us to stay here with the children. We saw police and emergency workers arriving," said Carole Capulade, 24.
https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/cold-blooded-killers-sow-terror-paris-street-163503652.html

 

[SStarr33]

This publication seems to have been deliberately provocative over a long period of time, what do we think about that?

Are you saying this rampage may be justified?

 

[zwiebel]

BBC TV news in Europe just announced breaking news that 18 year-old suspect has surrendered to police after seeing his name on social media.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Are you saying this rampage may be justified?

NO, of course not .. just opening up the discussion about media outlets who poke the bear in the eye as it were, do we keep going in that direction, do we perhaps decide to ask the people of Islam why it is so offensive to them and perhaps show sensitivity, do we up the ante and increase the provocation? What is the response?

 

[CARIIS]

forgot link!

 

[zwiebel]

I'm just listening to John Kerry making an announcement in French now....

 

[SStarr33]

BBC TV news in Europe just announced breaking news that 18 year-old suspect has surrendered to police after seeing his name on social media.

I wonder if that means he didn't do it.

 

[zwiebel]

ABC 7 Chicago* (@ABC7Chicago) tweeted at 2:39am - 8 Jan 15:

BREAKING: 18 y/o suspect in #CharlieHebdo massacre turns himself in: abc7.ws/17k41Hy pic.twitter.com/vxcr463J8v (https://twitter.com/ABC7Chicago/status/553003141931614208?s=17)

 

[Mrs G Norris]

David Ingles ‏@DavidInglesTV 56s56 seconds ago
BREAKING: French reports say youngest of 3 suspects surrendered near Belgian bordder... 2.5 drive from #Paris #JeSuisCharlie #ParisShooting

 

[ZaZara]

YOUNGEST SUSPECT SURRENDERS TO POLICE


Le Figaro reports:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-fr...2-en-direct-Charlie-Hebdo-Paris-fusillade.php

Un des suspects s'est rendu à la police
Le plus jeune des trois hommes recherchés s'est rendu mercredi soir au commissariat de Charleville-Mézières dans les Ardennes et a été placé en garde à vue, indiquent cette nuit des sources proches du dossier.

Cet homme, âgé de 18 ans, soupçonné d'avoir aidé les deux tireurs, s'est rendu "vers 23h00 après avoir vu que son nom circulait sur les réseaux sociaux", a expliqué à l'AFP une source proche du dossier. "Il a été interpellé et placé en garde à vue", a confirmé une autre source proche du dossier.

Cette dernière source affirment aussi que "plusieurs gardes à vue" étaient en cours "dans l'entourage" des deux frères recherchés dans cette affaire.

Translation:

One suspect has surrendered to police
The youngest of three wanted men went to the police station of Charleville-Mezieres in the Ardennes Wednesday night and was placed in custody, according to sources close to the case this night.

This man, aged 18, suspected of having helped the two shooters, turned himself in "around 23:00 hrs after seeing his name circulated on social networks," a source close to the caser told AFP. "He was arrested and taken into custody," another source close to the case confirmed.

The latter source also states that "several detentions in police custody" were underway "in the circle" of the two brothers wanted in this case.


BBM

 

[zwiebel]

Authorities found another flat around the corner from one they raided in Reims, that they think is also connected to attacks. But not confirmed. This is from my trusty but sleepy translator who is watching France24 on TV.

 

[zwiebel]

I am always so happy when ZaZara appears on a thread with languages. I just know there won't be any language problems after that.

ZaZara rocks!

 

[CARIIS]

BBC TV news in Europe just announced breaking news that 18 year-old suspect has surrendered to police after seeing his name on social media.

i heard this too but could not find anything

 

[zwiebel]

SBS News (@SBSNews) tweeted at 2:43am - 8 Jan 15:

BREAKING: Youngest of three suspects in #CharlieHebdo attack 'surrenders to police' bit.ly/1tLGSSV pic.twitter.com/gAUs39DiRA (https://twitter.com/SBSNews/status/553004033896501248?s=17)

 

[CARIIS]

http://www.newsweek.com/officer-shot-during-charlie-hebdo-massacre-identified-297603

 

[zwiebel]

Wanted poster has been issued for the two brothers.

Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) tweeted at 2:54am - 8 Jan 15:

French Police issue wanted poster for #CharlieHebdo suspects, Kouachi brothers: "on the loose, armed & dangerous" pic.twitter.com/TrnPk9h6Mm (https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/553006787931439106?s=17)

 

[ZaZara]

Authorities found another flat around the corner from one they raided in Reims, that they think is also connected to attacks. But not confirmed. This is from my trusty but sleepy translator who is watching France24 on TV.

According to itele.fr the intervention in Reims is not an assault, according to their info, but a search for collecting DNA and fingerprints.



itele ✔ @itele:

#CharlieHebdo > "l'intervention à #Reims n'est pas un assaut, selon nos informations" (@jmdecugis / @itele)

#CharlieHebdo > "l'intervention à #Reims est une perquisition, une fouille des lieux pour relever des empreintes ADN" (@jmdecugis / @itele)

 

[CARIIS]

MSNBC is saying two at large (older ones)