{"id":3949,"date":"2015-01-09T08:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T08:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2015-01-09T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T08:05:39","slug":"france-massacre-search-narrows-for-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3949","title":{"rendered":"France massacre: Search narrows for suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/france.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3950\" alt=\"france\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/france.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heavily armed anti-terrorism police have swooped on residential areas northeast of Paris in a extensive manhunt for two brothers suspected of being the gunmen who killed 12 people at a satirical weekly in the French capital.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the operation began after witnesses sighted the two men said to be responsible for the attack on\u00a0<em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em>\u00a0in a town in the Picardy region, adding that their hijacked getaway car was found in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>The manager of a petrol station near the Villers-Cotteret commune in Picardy said he \u201crecognised the two men suspected of having participated in the attack against\u00a0<em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em>,\u201d police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Villers-Cotteret is located approximately 80km northeast of Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The latest getaway car of the attackers, who hijacked multiple vehicles after the incident, was found abandoned around the same area.<\/p>\n<p>The identity cards of the suspects and petrol bombs were found in the\u00a0abandoned car.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the alleged attackers, who are also brothers, have been identified as\u00a032-year-old Said Kouachi and 34-year-old\u00a0Cherif Kouachi. Police said they are\u00a0French-born sons of Algerian-born parents.<\/p>\n<p>The two men, along with another person who is believed to be a teenager, are thought to have carried out Wednesday\u2019s attack before escaping in a car.<\/p>\n<p>In a news conference late on Thursday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the\u00a0younger brother was known French security forces, adding that he had had links to al-Qaeda in 2004 and 2005.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Said Kouachi had been under security survellience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavily armed anti-terrorism police have swooped on residential areas northeast of Paris in a extensive manhunt for two brothers suspected of being the gunmen who killed 12 people at a satirical weekly in the French capital. Officers said the operation began after witnesses sighted the two men said to be responsible for the attack on\u00a0Charlie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/france.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-11H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}