Close X
Monday, September 23, 2024
ADVT 
International

Charlie Hebdo Attack: One Suspect Surrenders In Paris

Darpan News Desk IANS, 07 Jan, 2015 07:30 PM
    The youngest of the three suspects in the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine here, has surrendered voluntarily, a media report said.
     
    The 18-year-old suspect may have helped two other suspects to escape, Xinhua quoted police as saying. He surrendered "around 23.00 hours after seeing his name on social media", media reports citing a police source said.
     
    Another source also confirmed that "he was arrested and put in custody".
     
    On Wednesday, Hooded gunmen dressed in black burst into the office of the magazine, killing 12 people in a coordinated strike. The attackers then fled the spot.
     
    The three suspects were later identified and named in a police document circulated to regional forces as Hamyd Mourad, 18, and brothers Said Kouachi, 32 and Cherif Kouachi, 34.
     
    "Two of them are brothers," said Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman.
     
    Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency, and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
     
     
    During his 2008 trial, he told the court he was motivated by his outrage at television images of torture of Iraqi inmates at the US prison at Abu Ghraib.
     
    Eight journalists, including the magazine's editor, and two policemen were among the dead.

    MORE International ARTICLES

    IKEA Pushes For Growth, Makes Shopping More Accessible

    IKEA Pushes For Growth, Makes Shopping More Accessible
    Ikea, whose stadium-sized furniture stores draw shoppers from miles around, is making an online push. The CEO of Ikea Group, the world's largest furniture chain, is pushing for sales growth, while making its ready-to-assemble furniture more accessible to shoppers increasingly buying online.

    IKEA Pushes For Growth, Makes Shopping More Accessible

    British royal baby due in April 2015

    British royal baby due in April 2015
    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton, are expecting their second child in April next year, Kensington Palace said Monday....

    British royal baby due in April 2015

    Social media helps find missing Indian girl in Sharjah

    Social media helps find missing Indian girl in Sharjah
    A minor Indian girl, who went missing from her home in Sharjah, was found after some five hours -- thanks to social media spreading....

    Social media helps find missing Indian girl in Sharjah

    Bodies of three Indians recovered in Nepal avalanche

    Bodies of three Indians recovered in Nepal avalanche
    Rescuers in Nepal Sunday found 12 more bodies, including those of three Indian trekkers, from the Annapurna Circuit in central Nepal, taking the toll from last...

    Bodies of three Indians recovered in Nepal avalanche

    Phone hacking scheme used to finance Mumbai attack: NYT

    Phone hacking scheme used to finance Mumbai attack: NYT
    Phone hackers in the US are bilking unsuspecting customers of billions of dollars every year through a scheme that was used to finance the 2008...

    Phone hacking scheme used to finance Mumbai attack: NYT

    Hong Kong apex court bans protestors from blocking roads

    Hong Kong apex court bans protestors from blocking roads
    The Supreme Court of Hong Kong Monday enacted a preliminary injunction to ban demonstrators from occupying roads in Mong Kok....

    Hong Kong apex court bans protestors from blocking roads