POLICE have “identified” the three masked gunman who remain on the loose following the “terrorist” massacre on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, according to reports. They are apparently aged 18, 32 and 34 according to local reports. One of the gunmen could be from Reims, 100 miles east of Paris.
Two of the gunmen are French nationals and natives, according to the report, and are brothers. The third, a homeless man, has been identified, but police have not yet confirmed his nationality.
Police have reportedly positively identified the gunmen but have yet to release their names; this was confirmed in a tweet by Le Monde shortly after the Metro report aired.
Update – the names are now released. And, surprise, surprise, the two brothers are recently returned from Syria. According to The Telegraph
The two brothers, born in Paris’ 10th arrondissement are French nationals called Saïd and Cherif Kouachi, aged 34 and 32.
Cherif was reportedly part of an Iraqi jihadi network dismantled in the nearby 19th arrondissement of Paris. He was sentenced to three years in prison with 18 months suspended in relation to terror charges in May 2008.
The two brothers are Franco-Algerians who came back from Syria this summer.
Hamyd Mourad, 18, is of no fixed abode. Last year, he reportedly was enrolled in a lycée in Charleville-Mezières around 50 miles from the Champagne capital of Reims, northeastern France. Police were reportedly hunting for him in Reims last night. The nationality of the youngest is unknown.
Their identity cards were circulating widely on Twitter.
Earlier police conducted searches in the Paris suburbs of Pantin, in Seine-Saint-Denis, where the assailants were thought to have driven to. They also conducted searches in Genevilliers, northwest of Paris.
Social media last night, people were reporting a significant presence of CRS anti-terror police in Reims.
Hassan Chalghoumi, an imam of the Paris suburb of Drancy, visited the site of the attack at Charlie Hebdo headquarters after the attack. He said of the attackers: “Their prophet is Satan. There is no connection between the Islamic faith and this minority.”
Well, he would, wouldn’t he?
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It’s being reported (23.00 Wednesday night) that the Police have tracked the murderers to Reims and have them surrounded. Apparently, one of them left his ID in the getaway car. What a tool. By the mornign it will all be settled one way or another. Je suis Charlie.
“apparently one of them left his ID card in the getaway car”.
If that *is* what happened…ROFLMAO.
However, seriously, I would prefer that information like this is NOT publicised. I ‘d rather that *nobody* in the general public knew the exact details, in any case, of how it was that the non-Muslim forces of law and order were able to find the jihadis so quickly.
Let the cops keep to themselves – sharing only with other cops, for future reference as potentially required – all such fortuitous lapses of judgement on the part of the villains.
Fatal errors that are not publicised – and, perhaps, errors the bad guy does not even realize he has committed, until too late – are likely to be repeated by the *next* allahu-akbaring thug who comes along (Islam promotes great cunning, in some areas, but also – in the long term – numbs and scrambles the human brain). I would prefer that the mohammedan mob be left to sweat and fret and stew and puzzle over who and what betrayed them and led the infidel cops straight to their lairs.