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Charlie Hebdo Paris shooting: Man linked to attacks turns himself in
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing, said the man surrendered voluntarily.
The 18-year-old suspect turned himself in at a police station in Charleville-Mézières, in northeastern France at around 7 p.m. ET, according to a report in Reuters.

Early Thursday, French police released images of the two other suspects, named as Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi, saying they should be considered armed and dangerous. Said Kouachi was born in 1980, two years older than his brother.

Police had said they were hunting for three heavily armed men in the military-style, methodical killing of 12 people Wednesday at the office of the satirical newspaper which had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.
Earlier reports identified the third suspect as Hamyd Mourad.
President François Hollande, visiting the scene of France's deadliest such attack in more than half a century, called the assault on the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo "an act of exceptional barbarism."

Two undated handout pictures released by French Police in Paris show Cherif Kouachi, left, and his brother Said Kouachi, 34, suspected in connection with the shooting attack at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo headquarters. (French Police/EPA)

France raised its terror alert system to the maximum — Attack Alert — and bolstered security with more than 800 extra soldiers to guard media offices, places of worship, transport and other sensitive areas. Fears had been running high in France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq would stage attacks at home.
Heavily armed police moved into the city of Reims, in France's Champagne country east of Paris, apparently searching for the suspects. Video from BFM TV showed police dressed in white apparently taking samples inside an apartment. It was not immediately clear who lived there.
One of the police officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network, and Cedric Le Bechec, a witness who encountered the escaping gunmen, quoted the attackers as saying: "You can tell the media that it's al-Qaeda in Yemen."
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive and ongoing investigation.Previous terrorism charges
Cherif Kouachi was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of terrorism charges in 2008 for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency. He said he was outraged at the torture of Iraqi inmates at the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib near Baghdad.
The masked, black-clad men with assault rifles stormed the offices near Paris's Bastille monument in the Wednesday noontime attack on the publication, which had long drawn condemnation and threats — it was firebombed in 2011 — for its depictions of Islam, although it also satirized other religions and political figures.
Shouting "Allahu akbar!" as they fired, the men used fluent, unaccented French as they called out the names of specific employees.

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• People take part in a rally in support of the victims during a gathering at the Place de la Republique after the terrorist attack on Wednesday in Paris. (Theirry Chesnot/Getty Images)
• People gather around candles and pens at the Place de la Republique after gunmen opened fire at the offices of the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo. (Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)
• This photo provided by The Paris Police Prefectureon Thursday shows the suspects Cherif Kouachi, left, and his brother Said. (Prefecture de Police de Paris/The Associated Press)
• At a vigil at Trafalgar Square in London, a woman holds a placard that reads, 'I am Charlie,' during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Jan. 7, 2015. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
• A bouquet of roses sits next to a placard that reads, 'I am Charlie,' in a tribute to the many people killed when masked gunmen stormed the offices of the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)
• A drawing depicting cartoonist Jean Cabut, left, Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier, centre, and cartoonist Georges Wolinski, all three killed when masked gunmen stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices. (Michael Sohn/Associated Press)
• Demonstrators gather at the Place de la République in Paris to honour the victims of the shooting. (Christophe Ena/Associated Press)
• Roses were placed in front of the French Embassy in Berlin as a tribute to the victims of the Paris shootings. (Bernd Von Jutrczenka/EPA)
• Flowers and signs were also placed in front of the French embassy in Ottawa. (Laura Payton/CBC)
• French police remove the bodies of victims from Charlie Hebdo's headquarters. The weekly newspaper is renowned for lampooning radical Islam. (Etienne Laurent/EPA)
• French flag are lowered to half-mast in front of the French Parliament following the worst militant attack on French soil in recent decades. (Yoan Valat/EPA)
• French President François Hollande headed to the scene after the attack, and the government said it was raising France's security level to the highest notch. (Etienne Laurent/EPA)
• Police and a witness said masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the French satirical newspaper, killing several people and injured others before escaping. (Thibault Camus/Associated Press)
• A simple bullet hole in a window at the scene of the attack doesn't begin to reflect the deadly impact of the shootings. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)
• Firefighters use a stretcher to carry one of the many victims of three shooters. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)
• A person injured in the deadly shootings is treated by nursing staff outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo. (Thibault Camus/Associated Press)
• French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, centre, arrives at the scene of the attack. (Ian Langsdon/EPA)
• Police block the roads next to the Charlie Hebdo headquarters after the attack. (Etienne Laurent/EPA)
• Grief-stricken individuals hug each other outside the newspaper following the deadly attack. (Remy de la Mauviniere/Associated Press)
• A member of the media holds up the front page of Charlie Hebdo, which shows a caricature of French author Michel Houellebecq, outside the newspaper's office following the shootings. President François Hollande called the incident a terrorist attack. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)
• A resident holds a placard that reads 'I am Charlie,' on a balcony near the scene. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)

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Charlie Hebdo has been repeatedly threatened for its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and other sketches. One cartoon, released in this week's issue and titled "Still No Attacks in France," had a caricature of a jihadi fighter saying "Just wait — we have until the end of January to present our New Year's wishes." Charb was the artist.

In a sombre address to the nation Wednesday night, Hollande pledged to hunt down the killers, and pleaded with his compatriots to come together in a time of insecurity and suspicion.

"Let us unite, and we will win," he said. "Vive la France!"

'Je suis Charlie'

France raised its security alert to the highest level and reinforced protective measures at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation. Schools closed across Paris, although thousands of people later jammed Republique Square near the site of the shooting to honour the victims, waving pens and papers reading "Je suis Charlie" — "I am Charlie." Similar rallies were held in London's Trafalgar Square as well as Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and Brussels.

"This is the darkest day of the history of the French press," said Christophe DeLoire of Reporters Without Borders.

Both al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group have repeatedly threatened to attack France, which is conducting airstrikes against extremists in Iraq and fighting Islamic militants in Africa.

During Cherif Kouachi's 2008 trial, he told the court, "I really believed in the idea" of fighting the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.


Police investigators examine the impacts from machine gun fire on the front of a police vehicle near the Charlie Hebdo offices. (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)

In the winter 2014 edition of the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, a so-called chief describing where to use a new bomb said: "Of course the first priority and the main focus should be on America, then the United Kingdom, then France and so on."

In 2013, the magazine specifically threatened Charb and included an article titled "France the Imbecile Invader."

The attack was condemned by world leaders.

President Barack Obama offered U.S. help in pursuing the gunmen, saying they had attacked freedom of expression. He offered prayers and support for France, which he called "America's oldest ally."

British Prime Minister David Cameron said his country stood united with France,

"We stand squarely for free speech and democracy. These people will never be able to take us off those values," Cameron said in the House of Commons.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted that he is "horrified by the barbaric attacks" and offered thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families.  

Russian President Vladimir Putin also condemned the attack as a "cynical crime," and pledged co-operation in fighting terrorism.

"I think all of Europe is crying today," said Italian Premier Matteo Renzi. "All the free world is crying. All men and women who believe in freedom and reason are crying."
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Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after his novel, The Satanic Verses, drew a death edict from Iran's religious authorities, said all must stand with Charlie Hebdo "to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity."

Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the Union of French mosques, condemned the "hateful act," and urged Muslims and Christians "to intensify their actions to give more strength to this dialogue, to make a united front against extremism."

The Organization of Islamic Co-operation based in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, which represents 57 Muslim-majority nations, added its condemnation, saying that violence and radicalism were the biggest enemies of Islam and went against all its fundamental principles and values.

A tweet from an al-Qaeda representative who communicated Wednesday with The Associated Press said the group was not claiming responsibility for the attack, but called it "inspiring."

Supporters of militant Islamic groups praised it. One self-described Tunisian loyalist of al-Qaeda and ISIS tweeted that the attack was well-deserved revenge against France.

The hashtag #JeSuisCharlie was trending as people expressed support for the weekly and for journalistic freedom. The weekly's website collapsed earlier Wednesday but was later restored.

It was the deadliest attack on journalists since 2009, when 32 journalists were killed in an ambush on a political convoy in the southern Philippines.

Philippe Val, one-time Charlie Hebdo chief, raised the possibility of publishing a special edition of the newspaper, saying "a way of speaking has been exterminated."

"We must respond, because we must testify for them," he told RTL radio

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Artist Corinne Rey told the French newspaper L'Humanite that she punched in the security code to the Charlie Hebdo offices after she and her young daughter were "brutally threatened" by the gunmen.

Eight journalists, two police officers, a maintenance worker and a visitor were killed, said prosecutor Francois Molins. He said 11 people were wounded — four of them seriously.

After fleeing, the attackers collided with another vehicle, then carjacked another car before disappearing in broad daylight, Molins said.

Among the dead: the paper's editor, Stéphane Charbonnier.

The staff was in an editorial meeting and the gunmen headed straight for Charbonnier — widely known by his pen name Charb — killing him and his police bodyguard first, said Christophe Crepin, a police union
Rey said the assault "lasted five minutes. I hid under a desk."

Two gunmen strolled out to a black car waiting below, one of them calmly shooting a wounded police officer in the head as he writhed on the ground, according to video and a man who watched in fear from his home across the street.


Masked gunman fire their weapons outside Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris on Wednesday. French police say the three suspects in the shooting are Frenchmen Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, in their early 30s, and 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn't immediately clear. (Associated Press)

The witness, who refused to allow his name to be used because he feared for his safety, said the attackers were so methodical he first thought they were members of France's elite anti-terrorism forces. Then they fired on the officer.

"They knew exactly what they had to do and exactly where to shoot. While one kept watch and checked that the traffic was good for them, the other one delivered the final coup de grâce," he said.

'We killed Charlie Hebdo'

"Hey! We avenged the Prophet Muhammad! We killed Charlie Hebdo," one of the men shouted in French, according to video shot from a nearby building.

The other dead were identified as cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Berbard Verlhac, better known as Tignous, and Jean Cabut, known as "Cabu." Also killed was Bernard Maris, an economist who was a contributor to the newspaper and was heard regularly on French radio.

Le Bechec, the witness who encountered the gunmen in another part of Paris, described on his Facebook page seeing two men "get out of a bullet-ridden car with a rocket-launcher in hand, eject an old guy from his car and calmly say hi to the public, saying 'you can tell the media that it's al-Qaeda in Yemen."'