Police identified three suspects wanted in connection to the commando-style terror attack on a Paris newspaper office on Wednesday, officials said.
Cops are swarming the French capital, searching for brothers Saïd and Cherif Kouachi, ages 34 and 32, respectively, and Hamyd Mourad, 18.
French police released these photos of suspects Cherif Kouachi (left), and his brother Said Kouachi (right), wanted in connection with the attack at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.Getty ImagesOne French official said the suspects are connected to a Yemeni terror network.
Cherif Kouachi was busted for his involvement in a jihadi network that was dismantled in Paris. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for funneling fighters to Iraq’s insurgency.
Kourachi, a fishmonger, met like-minded jihadists in the 19th Arrondissement, a working-class, heavily Arab district of Paris.
At his trial, Cherif Kouachi said he was motivated by TV images of Iraqi inmates being tortured and humiliated at Abu Ghraib prison.
“I really believed in the idea” of fighting the US-led coalition in Iraq, he said.
The brothers are Franco-Algerians who had lived in Syria before returning to France this past summer.
Mourad has no address, but was enrolled in a school in Charleville-Mezières – around 50 miles from the Champagne capital of Reims, northeastern France.
His ethnic or any previous national origins were not immediately known.
Heavily armed anti-terror police and helicopters were scouring Reims, about 90 miles east of Paris, late Wednesday night, in case Mourad is hiding out there, according to the regional newspaper L’Union-L’Ardennais.
“Everything will be done to arrest (the attackers),” French President Francois Hollande said. “We also have to protect all public places. Security forces will be deployed everywhere there can be the beginning” of a threat.
One of the attackers on Wednesday told witnesses: “You can tell the media that it’s al-Qaeda in Yemen (responsible for the slaughter).”
With Post Wire Services and additional reporting by Adelaide Kouadio


































