PARIS — French police officials say they have identified three men as suspects in a deadly attack against newspaper offices that killed 12 people and shook the nation, Associated Press and French media report.
Two officials named the suspects as Frenchmen Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, ages 43 and 32, as well as 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn’t immediately clear.
One of the officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network.
No arrests have been confirmed in the hunt for the attackers. It was the deadliest attack in France in half a century.
Three suspects have been arrested in the massacre at the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebro, French media reports quoting police sources.
The newspaper Le Point said the suspects were identified by their French identity cards in the car, a Citroen C3, abandoned in the flight.
The brothers were born in Paris and were “thugs who became radicalized,” a police source told the newspaper Le Point. Cherik had been sentenced in 2008 to three years in prison for working to help send French jihadists to Iraq, the newspaper said.
The police source described Mourad as homeless.
Source:: Metro News
