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Charlie Hebdo Manhunt: Developing Fast
• Shots have been fired and there are reports of a hostage being taken as French police close in on suspects linked to the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Several people are said to have been wounded at Dammartin-en-Goele, 22 miles from Paris, and not far from Charles de Gaulle Airport. Officials deny reports of deaths (BBC, AFP, Figaro, MKLNews, me)
• Negotiations are now underway with police at a printing business, reports say, where the two suspects are believed holed up. Residents have been asked to stay indoors and students have been confined to their schools. President Hollande says authorities knew “attacks were possible.”
• Helicopters have been involved in what is the biggest manhunt in the country’s history involving thousands of police. Police have asked the press to stop broadcasting live images from the hostage scene so as not to reveal police locations• Paris correspondent for the Guardian tweets: Yves Albarello, UMP MP for Seine-et-Marne has told @ itele “the two fugitives declared they wanted to die as martyrs.”
• In a separate development, French media reports say police have identified the killer of a policewoman in a Paris suburb Thursday. The shooting is said to be unrelated to the Charlie Hebdo attack• Separately, a blogger has been publicly lashed in Saudi Arabia for “insulting Islam” – witnesses (AFP)
Charlie Hebdo Attack
• As France mourned, thousands of police focused their search on northern France Thursday, where the two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris were reported to have stolen food from a gas station. A car they used in their getaway was found abandoned in the area (NYT, AP, WSJ, Reuters, TRNS, me)
• The sighting of brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, 34 and 32, captivated a nation that seemed to draw together Thursday, at least for a moment of silence at noon on a rare official day of national mourning, to defend French values like freedom of the press and religious tolerance
• A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Thursday that both brothers had been put on the U.S. no-fly list and another official said Said Kouachi had traveled to Yemen. A French security official said that American authorities had shared intel indicating that Said had traveled to Yemen several years ago for training• In Washington, President Obama visited the French Embassy on Thursday evening, where he signed a book of condolences and paused for a moment of silence alongside Ambassador Gerard Araud. “Terror is no match for freedom and ideals we stand for,” Obama wrote. He concluded his lengthy entry with “Vive la France!” • Raw vid: The Eiffel Tower pays tribute to Charlie Hebdo (AFP)
• The national mood in France encompassed fear, anger, unity and, ultimately, defiance. Isolated events helped fan anxiety. Thursday morning, a police officer was killed and a city employee was wounded by gunfire near a subway station just south of Paris – appeared unrelated to the newspaper attack, police said
• Police said they had detained several people for questioning in the Charlie Hebdo case and had arrested some of them. They also announced that at least five planned terrorist attacks had been thwarted in France over the last 18 months
• Police had their first big break when they discovered that Said had left his ID card in the first car used by the gunmen, found abandoned Wed evening after a crash. The police reportedly found Molotov cocktails and jihadist banners in the car as well. Thursday evening, police blocked off a road leading into the small town of Longpont• At noon, in a sign of mourning, bells rang, schools stopped classes and corporate meetings were cut short. At mosques, people bowed their heads. Some electronic road signs displayed the words, “Je suis Charlie” – I am Charlie
• New Yorker’s cover for 19 January takes on the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. Powerful
• At Notre Dame Cathedral, pedestrians wept as hundreds stood silent on a grey and rainy day to pay tribute to the victims. Through the vigils and tributes, some people held pencils, a symbol of support for freedom of the press
• Charlie Hebdo announced that it would publish as scheduled next Wednesday and would print 1 million copies, rather than the usual 60,000
• Abdennour Biden, a French Muslim and professor of philosophy, said on Arte TV that the killers “do not deserve the name of Muslims.” In the name of Islam, he said, he would not allow Islam to be “instrumentalized, stolen by these people who say they are avenging the Prophet. It’s a disgrace, an infamy a lie.”
• In the U.S., Gen Michael Flynn, a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said, “The strategic impact of this attack is exactly what they
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