Charlie Hebdo attacks: French police arrest two more suspects

Two people have been arrested in connection with the terrorist attacks in Paris on magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cache market. The satirical magazine was attacked on 7 January when brothers Said and Chérif Kouachi forced their way in with assault rifles and other weapons, killing 11 people and injuring 11 more. After leaving the building, they killed a police officer. There were a number of other attacks in the Île-de-France region, with a further five killed and 11 wounded and the brothers themselves were shot dead when they emerged from an industrial building two days later, firing at police.

Call the police. It’s carnage, a bloodbath. Everyone is dead.

Laurent Léger, a Charlie Hebdo writer, on the day of the attacks

The two suspects arrested this week were found at their home in Seine-Saint-Denis, by investigators of the anti-terrorist section of the Paris crime squad. According to the newspaper Le Parisien, one of the two suspects, whose exact role as not been determined, was identified after he was mentioned by Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman in the supermarket hostage siege. The supermarket incident saw Coulibaly kill four people and take hostages, which he threatened to kill if the Kouachi brothers were harmed. There were eventually 15 hostages rescued but many injured.

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