PARIS
— The French authorities carried out an intense manhunt on Thursday for
the two brothers who are suspected of mounting the deadly terrorist attack on the Paris office of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left a dozen dead. Officials detained and questioned seven people overnight in connection with the assault.
Xavier
Castaing, a spokesman for the Paris police, said that two men who
resembled the suspects had been spotted in the Aisne region northeast of
Paris. News reports said that the two men who were seen there had
robbed a gas station, and that police forces were swarming the area,
searching for the car they were using.
Even
as France observed a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of
the Wednesday attack, there were unnerving reports on Thursday of the
killing of a police officer and a street sweeper in a southern Paris
suburb, and accounts of attacks on mosques in other parts of France..
Prime Minister Manuel Valls of France said in an interview on RTL radio
that the authorities’ main concern was preventing another terrorist
attack. He issued a plea for witnesses to contact the police with any relevant information.
The
two chief suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack were identified as Said
Kouachi, 34, and his younger brother Chérif, 32. The authorities
searched for them on Thursday across a wide area of northern France. A
third suspect, Hamyd Mourad, 18, turned himself in at a police station
in Charleville-Mézières, about 145 miles northeast of Paris.
Bernard
Cazeneuve, the interior minister, confirmed that seven people were
detained overnight in connection with the case, but he offered no
details on their ties, if any, to the Kouachi brothers.
Two
American officials said on Thursday that the Kouachi brothers had ties
to Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, but the officials declined to say
whether that meant the suspects had been in communication with the group
or had traveled there and perhaps received training. The officials
cited the ongoing investigation.
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