Seven people have been arrested in connection with the Charlie Hebdo massacre. As two brothers involved with thte killing and linked to terrorist groups remain on the run. They are Said Kouachi, 34, and brother Cherif Kouachi, 32, both from Paris. The third assassin is Hamyd Mourad, 18, from Reims.
All three are French-Algerian Muslims and two of them (the Kouachi brothers) are still at large almost 24-hours after the gun battle in which two policemen died along with ten others, mainly the magazine staff. Read more about the brothers after the cut.....
Cherif Kouachi
Said Kouachi
A statement from the French Police states that the Kouchi brothers were armed and dangerous and a nationwide hunt was underway to find them.
The third, Mourad, a student was encouraged to hand himself in by relatives when his name popped up on social media as a suspect for the killings. He is under armed guard and is being questioned.
Police said both Kouchi and his brother Cherif were first arrested in 2005 as suspected members of Butts Chaumont - a group operating out of the 19th arrondissement of Paris which assist in sending terrorist fighters to Iraq.
Cherif was first convicted in 2008 to three years imprisonment for his association with the group. He had wanted to fly to Iraq via Syria and was found with a Kalashnikov - the automatic weapon use in Wednesday's attack.
Said was freed after questioning by police but his brother was known to have been radicalized after the Iraq war in 2003.
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