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All Three Charlie Hebdo Attack Suspects Detained

08.01.2015 [15:17]
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Baku, January 8, AZERTAC

The French daily Le Monde is reporting tonight that one of the three suspects in the Charlie Hebdo shootings early this morning in Paris has surrendered to police. Agence France-Presse said Hamid Mourad, 18, who was ID’d as one of the suspects in the killing of 12 people at the offices of the satirical magazine, turned himself in.

Later, it was reported that French police detained all three suspects of Wednesday terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine’s office in Paris.

On Wednesday morning, three masked men opened fire in the office of satirical weekly magazine in Paris, Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people, including two police officers.

Later on Wednesday French Le Point magazine said that the suspects are Frenchmen of Algerian origin. Two of them returned from Syria in the summer of 2014.