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Charlie Hebdo attack


'I saw horror,' says witness inside Charlie Hebdo office as police hunt suspects









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One suspect travel to Yemen ‘to train with al-Qaida’, Reuters reports
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 2.19am ET02:19 
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This particular blog has ended and a new one by my colleagues in the UK will continue the coverage shortly. 

More than 88,000 officers are on the ground as authorities continue to search for the two suspects in the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices.
The two brothers, Cherif and Said Kouachi, born in Paris of Algerian parents, are still at large.
The “exceptional” mobilisation could be increased if needed, the French foreign minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, told media. 
An international meeting on terrorism will be held in Paris on Sunday.
The backgrounds of the two brothers are being investigated, with reports that both had been on a US terror watch list “for years” and on a US no-fly list.
It’s also been reported that Said traveled to Yemen to train with Al Qaeda.
 Cherif was arrested trying to travel to Iraq in 2005 and later imprisoned for helping to channel fighters to Iraq. He has also been connected with militant Djamel Beghal.
Hamyd Mourad, 18, turned himself in to police after also being named as a suspect.
The French culture minister called for the release of 1m euros to sustain Charlie Hebdo. The Guardian media group pledged £100,000 and Google pledged $300,000. French media planned a fundraiser Friday.
Charlie Hebdo will publish as scheduled next week, with an expected 1m print run.
US president Obama has signed a book of condolence at the French embassy in Washington, DC.
The head of MI5, Andrew Parker, warned an attack on the UK was “highly likely” and called for increased powers to identify and monitor suspects in the wake of the attack.



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 1.57am ET01:57 

The Paris casino-hotel in Las Vegas dimmed the lights on its own Eiffel Tower on Thursday, AFP reports, in solidarity with the French capital.
“We stand with Paris in mourning the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack,” the casino said on Twitter, with a video showing the lights going off for six minutes at 8:00pm.


— Paris Las Vegas (@ParisVegas)
January 9, 2015
We stand with Paris. https://t.co/YXmztTZksi





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 1.27am ET01:27 



— Agence France-Presse (@AFP)
January 9, 2015
#INFOGRAPHIC Updated map of the manhunt in France for two suspected #CharlieHebdo killers @AFP pic.twitter.com/KEE3Q6UUE5 pic.twitter.com/5SFQv3BKl0





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 1.00am ET01:00 

French basketballer Nicolas Batum paid tribute to the victims during a game between the Trailblazers and Heat in Portland on Thursday.


— Erik Gundersen (@blazerbanter)
January 9, 2015
Nicolas Batum's warm up shirt tonight pic.twitter.com/HYtkgXR3dH





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 12.38am ET00:38 

Security services are investigating connections between one of the suspects, Cherif and militants including Djamel Beghal, who was “a key extremist organiser in the UK in the late 1990s and was connected to Abu Qatada, the London-based radical preacher deported after a long legal struggle to Jordan in 2013,” Jason Burke reports.
Beghal and Cherif met in prison where the older militant became a mentor of Cherif.
Read Burke’s full report here.
Beghal described the Paris shootings as “the legacy of Abu Hamza.”

Updated at 1.17am ET

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 12.31am ET00:31 
Search enters third day

The search for the two brothers suspected of the massacre has resumed, BBC World reports.


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 11.33pm ET23:33 

In the next few hours French authorities will resume their search for the suspects. In the meantime here is a look at some of the front pages Europeans will be waking up to, curated by journalist and editor Andrew Peng. Pictorially, the front pages have focused on the heavy police presence in rural France and the mass vigils. Finnish newspaper, Hufvudstadsbladet, has gone with a striking cartoon, as has French paper L’actu.


— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist)
January 8, 2015
Tomorrow's @thetimes front page: "Killers elude manhunt" #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/bWYn7kWlRv





— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist)
January 9, 2015
Tomorrow's Hufvudstadsbladet front page. #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/sKHrVN7Gcx





— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist)
January 9, 2015
Tomorrow's La Voix du Nord front page: "Tous unis pour Charlie" #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/SrCsyz0KDa





— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist)
January 9, 2015
Tomorrow's Courrier picard front page: "LA TRAQUE" #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/mZXFsn3DqW





— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist)
January 9, 2015
Tomorrow's @volkskrant front page: "Frankrijk onder hoogspanning" #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/5gWUZSDv2V





— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist)
January 9, 2015
Tomorrow's De Telegraaf front page: "HANDEN AF VAN ONZE VRIJHEID" #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/gNiir4RkU4





— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist)
January 9, 2015
L'actu cover on the terror attack in Paris. #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/5xQizWn1hr





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 11.14pm ET23:14 

Iranian journalist, Negar Mortazavi, reports the council of Iran writers has condemned the attack.


— Negar Mortazavi (@NegarMortazavi)
January 9, 2015
Council of Iran Writers condemns attack on #ChalieHebdo, says Iran people & writers have also paid high a price for freedom of expression.





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 10.39pm ET22:39 

The AFP is also now reporting the Yemen connections. It cited a “senior US administration official” who said it was believed that one of the two suspects, Saïd Kouachi, had trained with Al Qaeda in Yemen. Another told AFP both brothers had been on a US terror watch list “for years”
The brothers were both flagged in a US database as terror suspects, and also on the no-fly list, meaning they were barred from flying into the United States, the officials said.
Separately, a police source told AFP the younger of the pair, Cherif Kouachi, had not traveled overseas recently and neither brother was being monitored “as targets who could move into action.”
French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira earlier told CNN one of the brothers had traveled to Yemen but did not say which one.


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 10.24pm ET22:24 

Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has urged the country’s media not to resort to self-censorship. My colleague Daniel Hurst reports from Canberra: 

“Australian media organisations don’t normally hold back when, for argument’s sake, they are criticising Christianity,” Abbott told Nine’s Today program. “Catholicism comes in for a particular dose of scorn.”
Abbott said it was important that “we don’t engage in self-censorship as a result of this kind of attack”.
“Second, and even more important, we should not stop being ourselves because of this kind of attack,” he said.
“If we do engage in self-censorship, if we do change the way we live and the way we think, that gives terrorists a victory. The last thing we should do is give these evil fanatics any kind of victory.”



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 10.23pm ET22:23 



— Katharine Viner (@KathViner)
January 9, 2015
Friday Guardian print edition front page pic.twitter.com/qT8DmlGaaK





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 10.14pm ET22:14 

The attacks have also complicated US Republican party efforts to stage a showdown with president Obama over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, Reuters reports:

Several prominent Republicans said on Thursday there should be no interruption in funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is tasked with preventing attacks on U.S. soil and with securing the country’s borders, airports and coastal waters. 
The agency’s funding expires on Feb. 27. Republican leaders had planned to use the deadline as leverage to challenge Obama’s new program shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. 
Such a move would likely draw a White House veto, risking a cut-off in DHS funding. 
Some moderate Republicans said they need to tread carefully on DHS funding after Wednesday’s attack by two Islamist gunmen killed 12 at the offices of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo. 
“I’m against the executive order, and we should stop it, fine, but we cannot in any way weaken our homeland security funding when it comes to counterterrorism,” said Representative Peter King, a senior Republican member of the House Homeland Security committee. “You can’t afford to cut back $1.” 
House Speaker John Boehner will hold a closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers on Friday to discuss handling of the DHS funding deadline. 



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 10.01pm ET22:01 

The Guardian’s defence and security correspondent, Ewen MacAskill reports on calls from the head of UK security agency, MI5, for increased powers to identify and monitor suspects in the wake of the attack.

About 50% of MI5’s work is now devoted to counter-terrorism. Head of the agency, Andrew Parker said: “My sharpest concern as director general of MI5 is the growing gap between the increasingly challenging threat and the decreasing availability of capabilities to address it.”
Almost all of MI5’s top-priority UK counter-terrorism investigations had used intercept capabilities in some form to identify, understand and disrupt plots, he said. “So if we lose that ability, if parts of the radar go dark and terrorists are confident that they are beyond the reach of MI5 and GCHQ, acting with proper legal warrant, then our ability to keep the country safe is also reduced.”

Parker also revealed MI5 and its partners had stopped three terrorism plots in recent months.


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 9.37pm ET21:37 

More than 88,000 security force officers have been mobilised for the search which is currently focusing on a forest in the rural Aisne region northeast of Paris.
The french foreign minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, told media the “exceptional” mobilisation could be increased if needed. An international meeting on terrorism will be held in Paris on Sunday.

Updated at 9.40pm ET

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 9.03pm ET21:03 

This is Helen Davidson, taking over the rolling updates.
US president Barack Obama has visited the French embassy in Washington, DC, to sign a book of condolence. 
“As allies across the centuries, we stand united with our French brothers to ensure that justice is done and our way of life is defended,” the AP reported Obama wrote. 
“We go forward together knowing that terror is no match for freedom and ideals we stand for ideals that light the world.”
He signed off with “Vive la France!”



US President Barack Obama signs a book of condolence to honour those killed in the terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, France on 07 January, at the Embassy of France in Washington DC, USA, 08 January 2015.
Photograph: Ron Sachs / POOL/EPA




— itele (@itele)
January 9, 2015
#CharlieHebdo > le message d'#Obama laissé sur le livre de condoléances de l'ambassade française de Washington pic.twitter.com/4A2zIw0r0u




Updated at 9.22pm ET

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 8.10pm ET20:10 

Due to a technical issue we’ve had to take down a video showing the Eiffel Tower turning its lights off for five minutes in a tribute to the 12 victims of the attack.

Updated at 8.55pm ET

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 8.06pm ET20:06 
"I saw horror ... " journalist's account from inside the Charlie Hebdo offices

“I saw horror,” Charlie Hebdo journalist Laurent Leger said of his sighting of the Islamist gunman who rampaged through his office. “He was masked, dressed all in black, he was holding his weapon with both hands.” 
Leger, who survived the massacre by sheltering under a table, told France Info radio the gunman burst into the editorial meeting room shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
He then called out “Charb!”, the name of editor-in-chief and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, who was living under police protection after receiving death threats for the magazine’s provocative content mocking Islam.
“And then the shooting started, the smell of gunpowder ... by chance I threw myself behind the table and he didn’t see me ... a few seconds, and everyone was on the ground.”

Updated at 8.57pm ET

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 7.54pm ET19:54 
Charlie lives...

Charlie Hebdo will publish as scheduled next week.
The French satirical magazine is planning a million-print run, with printing, logistical, staffing and financial support from other news organisations.
The next edition of Charlie Hebdo will be published next Wednesday, to defiantly show that “stupidity will not win,” said columnist Patrick Pelloux, who is also an emergency room doctor.
Remaining staff held a meeting on Thursday to discuss its future.
“It’s very hard. We are all suffering, with grief, with fear, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win,” Pelloux said.
The publication will be put together outside Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters, which are not accessible following the massacre.
“We’ll do it from home, we’ll make it work,” Pelloux said.


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 7.49pm ET19:49 


Democracy is not something weak, it is something strong, and we shall never surrender against terror.

The words of the French ambassador to Australia, Christophe Lecourtier, to his countrymen and Australians gathered in Sydney’s Martin Place on Thursday night. He then led those gathered in a defiant rendition of La Marseillaise.








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Sydney vigil for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack.


Martin Place, of course, was the scene of the violent siege of a cafe by armed gunman Man Haron Monis last month, in which two of his hostages were killed. It then became the site of a massive floral tribute to those lost, Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson. 

Updated at 8.58pm ET

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 7.39pm ET19:39 

Elegance in solidarity. A poignant, beautiful cover of the New Yorker. 


— Auskar Surbakti (@AuskarSurbakti)
January 9, 2015
Beautiful. MT @NewYorker: Cover of next week’s issue by Ana Juan: http://t.co/uwftSB0HXt #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/iTS569P3qD




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 7.38pm ET19:38 

As an adjunct to the debate on the republication of Charlie Hebdo’s front pages: the Danish newspaper that caused global controversy in 2005 by publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad was the only major Danish daily on Thursday not to carry any illustrations from Charlie Hebdo.
Security concerns were part of Jyllands-Posten’s decision not publish the images.
AFP reports: “The Aarhus-based Jyllands-Posten sparked protests across the Muslim world – some of which turned lethal – after its 2005 publication of 12 cartoons that included a picture of the Islamic prophet wearing a bomb in a turban.
They were reprinted in Charlie Hebdo – where 12 died in a jihadist attack on its Paris offices Wednesday – in February 2006 in solidarity with Jyllands-Posten, sparking further anger and threats by radical Islamists.
“I maintain the right as an editor to be able to print all types of drawings again at some point. Just not right now,” Jyllands-Posten editor Joern Mikkelsen told his own newspaper.
“The same debate has been going on now for 10 years, for or against the drawings and so on. We must move on,” he added.
Mikkelsen admitted that his staff’s security had been part of the decision not to run any illustrations from the French satirical magazine.
“The truth is that for us it would be completely irresponsible to print old or new prophet drawings right now,” he said.
“Many would not like to admit that. I do, albeit very grudgingly. Jyllands-Posten has a responsibility to itself and its employees,” he added.
Denmark’s other two main broadsheets, Politiken and Berlingske, both published a series of Charlie Hebdo’s most memorable covers, including one that appeared to show Muhammad being pushed in a wheelchair by a Jewish man.
Tabloid Ekstra Bladet renamed itself Charlie Hebdo for the day in honour of the French cartoonists gunned down on Wednesday.

Updated at 9.00pm ET

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 7.28pm ET19:28 

The Guardian editorial - the view of this news organisation - broaches the question of why, if an organisation values free speech and stands up for Charlie Hebdo, it does not reprint the controversial cartoons which were its hallmarks.
There has been a vigorous debate with some saying news organisations have a duty to reprint the Muhammad cartoons. Others have pointed out that you don’t have to reprint in order to stand up for the right of others to cause offense.
The Guardian’s position is summarised here:

In social media, the call has been loud – and aimed at several British newspapers, including this one – to take a stand by publishing the very images that made Charlie Hebdo a target. For the most vociferous, republishing a sample of the magazine’s usual fare, which the Guardian has already done, is not enough: they insist that true defenders of free speech would reprint Charlie Hebdo’s depictions of the prophet Muhammad, especially the crudest, most scatological examples.
There is an appealing simplicity to that stance, but it rests on faulty logic. The key point is this: support for a magazine’s inalienable right to make its own editorial judgments does not commit you to echo or amplify those judgments. Put another way, defending the right of someone to say whatever they like does not oblige you to repeat their words.

You can read the whole editorial here.


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 7.21pm ET19:21 

French authorities have warned that the two brothers still on the run are likely to be “armed and dangerous”.
This has not stopped some citizens from volunteering to assist in the search. Reports have come from Corcy of a student arriving on the scene, carrying a GoPro camera and a laptop computer, having decided to help out in the hunt for the two men.


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 7.12pm ET19:12 

Others have emphasised the point that Merabet was a Muslim. The man who killed him was a terrorist.


— David Clinch (@DavidClinchNews)
January 8, 2015
This image trending on the #CharlieHebdo hashtag today: pic.twitter.com/sxFK1XhvZg





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 7.06pm ET19:06 

The United Nations Security Council has condemned the “barbaric and cowardly terrorist attack” on the Charlie Hebdo offices, and observed a moment’s silence in memory of the 12 people killed.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made an appeal for tolerance across the world, and paid especial tribute to policeman Ahmed Merabet, shot at close range as he lay wounded on the footpath.
“We now know that policeman’s name. He was Ahmed Merabet. He himself was a Muslim,” Ban said.
“This is yet another reminder of what we are facing together. It should never be seen as a war of religion, for religion or on religion.”
Others have paid similar tribute to Merabet.


— Dyab Abou Jahjah (@Aboujahjah)
January 8, 2015
I am not Charlie, I am Ahmed the dead cop. Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so. #JesuisAhmed





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 6.54pm ET18:54 

There has been widespread reporting in America, quoting a ‘senior US intelligence official’, that both the Kouachi brothers were known to security authorities, and on a US Government ‘No-Fly List’.
Spokesman for the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Centre, Dave Joly, told The Guardian he could neither confirm nor deny whether the brothers were listed on the US Government’s terrorist database. 
“The Terrorist Screening Center does not publically confirm nor deny whether any individual maybe included in the U.S. Government’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). Disclosure of an individual’s inclusion or non-inclusion in the TSDB would significantly impair the government’s ability to investigate and counteract terrorism.”

Updated at 7.13pm ET

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 6.43pm ET18:43 

The forest nearby to Longpont where the men are now believed to be hiding is said to be “bigger than Paris”.
“We live next to the forest,” said Roseline, a grandmother who lives in the neighbouring village of Corcy.
“I’m scared, night is falling and they may be hidden nearby.”
Michel, a 55-year-old bus driver from Corcy, told AFP the forest had plenty of caves and other places to hide.
“I’ve gone round the house, closed the shutters, but there are loads of caves nearby and places where they grow mushrooms,” he said, suggesting they were ideal hiding places.


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 6.34pm ET18:34 
It is now 37 hours since gunmen stormed the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo

This map has the sequence and location of events since. Two suspects remain at large.





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 6.20pm ET18:20 
Summary

Hello and welcome to our live blog coverage of the ongoing hunt in France for two suspects in the attack Wednesday on Charlie Hebdo magazine. Here’s a summary of where things stand:

French authorities continued the search for two suspects in the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine that killed 12 on Wednesday.
The search activity centered in forested areas around the towns of Longpont and Villers-Cotterêts in the Aisne region northeast of Paris. Police set up roadblocks and deployed helicopters. 
The suspects are brothers Chérif Kouachi, 32, and Saïd Kouachi, 34. There was a reported sighting of the pair at a gas station in the area.
The French justice minister said Thursday that one of the brothers had traveled to Yemen. Reuters reported that Saïd Kouachi had trained with al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Chérif Kouachi was arrested trying to travel to Iraq in 2005 and later imprisoned for helping to channel fighters to Iraq.
Both brothers were in a US terrorism suspects database and on a US no fly list, multiple US media outlets reported. 
Hamyd Mourad, 18, turned himself in to police after also being named as a suspect.
See a map of key events in the manhunt.
 French president François Hollande held meetings with security officials and former president Nicolas Sarkozy. 
A large rally was planned for Paris on Sunday. Officials have announced the exclusion of Marine Le Pen and the national front, to which Le Pen forcefully objected.
French officials had not ruled out connections between the Charlie Hebdo attack and two separate incidents of violence south of Paris Thursday. A gunman shot a policewoman and a street cleaner in Montrouge, and a car exploded in Villejuif. 
The French culture minister called for the release of 1m euros to sustain Charlie Hebdo. The Guardian media group pledged £100,000 and Google pledged $300,000. French media planned a fundraiser Friday. 
The French paper Libération said it would host Charlie Hebdo for production of coming issues, including one next week for which a 1m-copy print run was announced. 
A large vigil was held in Paris at the Place de la République for a second night. Vigils were held elsewhere around the world.
US attorney general Eric Holder planned to travel to Paris at the weekend for a meeting with French officials. 

You can catch up on our previous live blog here.

Updated at 6.25pm ET

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