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Said
Kouachi, along with Cherif Kouachi are the two prime suspects in the Paris
terror attack (Judicial Police of Paris/PA)
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88,000 police and security personnel are involved in
the attempt to apprehend and detain two suspects, the Kouachi brothers, on the
run after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris is 72 hours ago, on Wednesday,
January 07, 2015.
Reports monitored by GRAPHITTI NEWS indicate the French Interior Minister is not confirming too
many details as at the time of filing this report.
Shots have been fired during a car chase near Paris as
the massive manhunt for two brothers believed to have carried out the Charlie
Hebdo massacre entered a third day.
There are also reports of hostages being taken after
the pair stole a Peugeot car in a town about 30 miles north east of Paris.
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Armed
French police patrol in Longpont, north of Paris (AP)
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It comes as thousands of police search for Said and
Cherif Kouachi who are thought to have killed 12 people killed in the attack on
satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The French interior ministry confirmed that an
operation to detain the suspects was under way.
They are said to have stolen the car earlier today in
the town of Montagny Sainte Felicite.
Thousands of police and security officers have been
deployed in the hunt, which had been concentrating on a rural area to the north
of the city after reports that they were spotted driving a Renault Clio at a
roadside petrol station in the Aisne region.
Teams of heavily-armed officers have been scouring the
dense woodland in the 32,000-acre Foret de Retz around 50 miles outside Paris.
The brothers were already known to US authorities and
had been put on the American no-fly list, a senior US counter-terrorism
official said.
Another US official said the older brother, Said, had
travelled to Yemen. It was unclear whether he was there to join up with
extremist groups such as al Qaida.
A third man, Hamyd Mourad, 18, surrendered to police,
after hearing his name on the news in connection with the attack, a judicial
official said.
The tension gripping France deepened further yesterday
after a policewoman was shot dead in a southern Parisian suburb in an attack
which officials are believed to be treating as a terrorist act.
The police operation is taking place in the town of
Dammartin-en-Goele, 25 miles north-east of Paris.
There was heavy gunfire reported on the major road
linking the two towns followed by the car chase.
A large police convoy,
including helicopters, rushed to the scene, reportedly a construction company.
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