PARIS ATTACKS: Tracing shadowy terrorist linksPARIS ATTACKS: Tracing shadowy terrorist links



Chérif Kouachi

The younger of the two Charlie Hebdo attack gunmen was killed by the police in a raid in Dammartin-en-Goële, northeast of Paris. In 2008, he was sentenced to three years in jail on terrorism conspiracy charges linked to the Paris-based Buttes Chaumont network, which was sending jihadists to fight US troops in Iraq. 


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Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch has claimed responsibility for the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack.






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Mohamed Belhoucine

The elder Belhoucine brother was sentenced in July 2014 to two years in jail, with one year suspended, for cyber-jihadism and his role in sending jihadists to the Afghanistan-Pakistan area. Police believe he left France shortly before the Paris attacks and is probably in Syria.




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Police have found keys to a two-wheeler in a hideout used by Amedy Coulibaly in Gentilly, a southern Parisian suburb. Police know the identity of scooter owner, but no details have been released. There are questions of whether the scooter owner is the Fontenay gunman. 




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Police are searching for the person who posted a video of Amédy Coulibaly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group a day after Coulibaly was killed. Investigators suspect the online accomplice could be Mohamed Belhoucine.



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Police are searching for the new owner of Hayat Boumeddiene’s Mini Cooper. A man was seen driving the vehicle, but his identity and the car registration details have not been revealed.


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Nettin Kara	sular 

A resident of Charleroi, Belgium, Karasular has been indicted for “arms trafficking”. These arms could have been used in the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks. Belgium news reports say the arms could have been obtained in exchange for cash as well as a car. There are questions over whether the car is Hayat Boumeddiene’s missing Mini Cooper.

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Said Kouachi

The elder Kouachi brother travelled to Yemen in 2011 and allegedly met Anwar al-Awlaki shortly before the US-born al Qaeda ideologue was killed in a US drone strike. Kouachi himself was killed in the police raid in Dammartin-en-Goële, a small town northeast of Paris. Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch has claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack.




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Izzana Hamyd

Cherif Kouachi’s widow is now free after spending three days in custody following the Charlie Hebdo attack. Investigators say approximately 500 calls were made from Izzana Mahyd’s mobile phone to Hayat Boumeddiene’s cell phone in 2014.

  

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Hayat Boumeddiene

France’s most-wanted woman left France for Turkey a week before her common law husband, Amedy Coulibaly, killed a policewoman and four Jewish hostages. CCTV footage shows her arriving at Istanbul airport on Jan. 2, 2015 with Mehdi Belhoucine. Turkish and French authorities believe she has crossed into Syria. Like the three Paris gunmen, Boumeddiene was known to French security services.


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Mehdi Belhoucine

CCTV footage shows him arriving at Istanbul airport on Jan. 2, 2015. In July 2014, Belhoucine appeared before a Paris court with his elder brother on charges of sending jihadists to the Pakistan-Afghanistan area. He was found not guilty. His brother, Mohamed, was given two years for time served, and released on a one year suspended sentence. 


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Fritz-Joly Joachim 

The Frenchman of Haitian origin was arrested in Bulgaria on Jan. 1, 2015 on an arrest warrant for allegedly kidnapping his three-year-old son and attempting to take the child into Syria. After the Paris attacks, Belgian authorities received another European arrest warrant alleging Joachim belonged to a terrorist group and had been in contact with Cherif Kouachi. He has agreed to be extradited back to France. 
		
		When he was arrested, Joachin was travelling with his Turkish girlfriend Imane Chanaa. He brother Younes Chanaa is currently being held on suspicion of being part of a European recruitment network for the IS group.



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Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem

Former member of the Algerian jihadist group GIA (Armed Islamist Group), sentenced to life in prison for his participation in the 1995 Paris metro bombings. Cherif Kouachi, Amedy Coulibaly and Djamel Beghal were arrested in May 2010 for a failed plot to break Belkacem out of prison.

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Amedy Coulibaly

The Paris kosher supermarket hostage-taker had a criminal record dating back to 2001 and spent most of the past decade in and out of prison. Coulibaly is believed to have met Cherif Kouachi and Djamel Beghal at the Fleury-Mérogis prison. Following his release, Coulibaly kept in touch with Cherif Kouachi via the Buttes Chaumont network. He killed a policewoman in suburb south of Paris on January 8, one day before he attacked the kosher supermarket in the French capital. During the supermarket siege, he told French media he had “synchronised” his attacks with the Kouachi brothers.


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Djamel Beghal

A French-Algerian radical Islamist, Beghal was a sort of father figure for Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly. The three met in 2005 at the Fleury-Mérogis prison in southern Paris. After his release, Kouachi, as well as Coulibaly and his partner Hayat Boumeddiene, visited Beghal while he was under house arrest in the Auvergne region of southern France.


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IS Group

Amedy Coulibaly has said he acted on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) group. While the IS group has “welcomed” the Charlie Hebdo attack, it has not claimed responsibility for the Paris kosher supermarket hostage-taking or the killing of a policewoman in the Montrouge neighborhood of Paris.
 


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Mourad Hamyd

The 18-year-old brother of Izzana Hamyd turned himself in to the police after the Charlie Hebdo attack after being wrongly accused of being the "third suspect” in the shootings. His classmates however say Mourad Hamyd was in school that day. He was released two days later.


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The Fontenay gunman

Hours after the Charlie Hebdo attack, a jogger was shot in the Parisian suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses, leaving the man in a coma. Ballistics tests of bullet casings show the handgun used in Fontenay-aux-Roses matches one of the handguns Amedy Coulibaly used in the kosher supermarket attack.


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Willy P.

Charged with conspiracy to commit crimes directed against people. He has been previously convicted on delinquency charges. 
	  
He was part of a group which purchased, on behalf of Coulibaly, a Renault Mégane, the car that Coulibaly may have used before the attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris. A photocopy of his mother’s national identity papers was found in the car.  
	  
Along with two other men facing charges, he is suspected of purchasing tear gas canisters, knives and a vest matching those found on Coulibaly after the hostage incident at the kosher supermarket in Paris.

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Christophe R.

Charged with conspiracy to commit crimes directed against people. He has been previously convicted on delinquency charges.  
	  
He was part of a group which purchased, on behalf of Coulibaly, a Renault Mégane, the car Coulibaly may have used before the attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris.  
	  
Along with two other men facing charges, he is suspected of purchasing tear gas canisters, knives and a vest matching those found on Coulibaly after the hostage incident at the kosher supermarket in Paris. He is suspected of storing part of the arsenal used by Coulibaly in his home as late as January 1, 2015.

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Tonino G.

Charged with conspiracy to commit crimes directed against people. He has no criminal record. 
	  
He was part of a group which purchased, on behalf of Coulibaly, a Renault Mégane, the car Coulibaly may have used before the attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris.
	  

	  Along with two other men facing charges, he is suspected of purchasing tear gas canisters, knives and a vest matching those found on Coulibaly after the hostage incident at the kosher supermarket in Paris.

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Michaël A.

Charged with conspiracy to commit crimes directed against people. He met Coulibaly while serving his last prison sentence (2011-2013) on drug trafficking charges. 
	
His DNA was found on weapons that were seized in Coulibaly’s last known address in the Parisian suburb of Gentilly, and on a glove worn by Coulibaly when he took hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris.
	
He and Coulibaly shared multiple telephone exchanges in the four months prior to the Paris attacks and they were seen together in the town of Grigny on January 5, 2015, two days before the deadly assault on the offices of Charlie Hebdo.

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