Update: The Guardian is reporting that police have arrested the three suspects. We’ll update as more information comes through.
The Paris police have named Hamyd Mourad (18) and brothers Chèrif Kouachi (32) and Said Kouachi (34), as suspects in the Paris terrorist shooting of newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
These are the men reportedly responsible for the murder of 12 innocents, including two policemen. They are alleged to have carried out the attack with AK-47s and RPGs.
The Hamyd Mourad, Cherif Kouachi, and Said Kouachi were named in the report (below) by Paris police, issued at night. The report’s written in French, but it essentially states who they are, when they were born, and what they’ve been doing.
Said Kouachi:
Said and his brother are both French-Algerian, born in Paris.
Cherif Koucahi:
Cherif Kouachi is allegedly already well-known to police. Between 2003-2005, he actively encouraged others to fight in Iraq and was arrested in 2005 while trying to leave for Iraq. Cherif was sentenced to three years, including eighteen months suspended sentence.
