[h=1]Charlie Hebdo cartoonist reveals terrorists threatened to murder her toddler unless she let them in - and how she cowered with child under desk as massacre took place[/h]
- Corrine Rey and her daughter saw two other cartoonists being killed
- They threatened her into giving them entry code for the office building
- She says men 'who spoke perfect French' claimed to be Al Qaeda terrorists
- Attackers were reportedly heard shouting: 'the Prophet has been avenged'
- The masked men asked people's names before killing editor and cartoonist
- 'There were several corpses on the floor,' said office worker from building
- He entered room right after attackers had gone to see 'blood everywhere'
A young mother and cartoonist who survived the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris today said she had let the suspected Al Qaeda killers into the magazine office.
Corrine Rey said she had returned from picking up her young daughter from a kindergarten when she was confronted by two heavily armed men wearing balaclavas.
'I had gone to pick up my daughter at day care, arriving in front of the magazine building, where two masked and armed men brutally threatened us,' said Ms Rey, who draws under the name 'Coco'.
Corrine Rey said she had returned from picking up her young daughter from a kindergarten when she was confronted by two heavily armed men wearing balaclavas.
'I had gone to pick up my daughter at day care, arriving in front of the magazine building, where two masked and armed men brutally threatened us,' said Ms Rey, who draws under the name 'Coco'.
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Desperate: Corrine Rey, who's a cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo, hid underneath a desk with her daughter to escape the terrorists who killed her colleagues
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Siege: The two men, who claimed to be from Al Qaeda, threatened Miss Rey into giving them the code to enter the building
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20.59 Police and anti-terror magistrates reportedly identified the three assailants, two of whom are brothers, reports The Telegraph's Henry Samuel.
The two brothers, born in Paris’ 10th arrondissement are French nationals called Saïd and Cherif Kouachi, aged 34 and 32.
Cherif was reportedly part of an Iraqi jihadi network dismantled in the nearby 19th arrondissement of Paris. He was sentenced to three years in prison with 18 months suspended in relation to terror charges in May 2008.
The two brothers are Franco-Algerians who came back from Syria this summer.
Hamyd Mourad, 18, is of no fixed abode. Last year, he reportedly was enrolled in a lycée in Charleville-Mezières around 50 miles from the Champagne capital of Reims, northeastern France. Police were reportedly hunting for him in Reims last night. The nationality of the youngest is unknown.
Their identity cards were circulating widely on Twitter.
Earlier police conducted searches in the Paris suburbs of Pantin, in Seine-Saint-Denis, where the assailants were thought to have driven to.
They also conducted searches in Genevilliers, northwest of Paris.
Social media last night, people were reporting a significant presence of CRS anti-terror police in Reims. Another Twitter user suggested that there was an “incessant” helicopter surveillance.
The two brothers, born in Paris’ 10th arrondissement are French nationals called Saïd and Cherif Kouachi, aged 34 and 32.
Cherif was reportedly part of an Iraqi jihadi network dismantled in the nearby 19th arrondissement of Paris. He was sentenced to three years in prison with 18 months suspended in relation to terror charges in May 2008.
The two brothers are Franco-Algerians who came back from Syria this summer.
Hamyd Mourad, 18, is of no fixed abode. Last year, he reportedly was enrolled in a lycée in Charleville-Mezières around 50 miles from the Champagne capital of Reims, northeastern France. Police were reportedly hunting for him in Reims last night. The nationality of the youngest is unknown.
Their identity cards were circulating widely on Twitter.
Earlier police conducted searches in the Paris suburbs of Pantin, in Seine-Saint-Denis, where the assailants were thought to have driven to.
They also conducted searches in Genevilliers, northwest of Paris.
Social media last night, people were reporting a significant presence of CRS anti-terror police in Reims. Another Twitter user suggested that there was an “incessant” helicopter surveillance.
Cherif Kouachi, 32, has been named as one of three suspects in the January 7 terror attack thatkilled 10 journalists and two police officers at the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo satire magazine in Paris.
The other suspects have been named as Said Kouachi, 34, and Hamyd Mourad, 18.
Here’s what we know about Cherif Kouachi and his alleged role in this atrocity:
[h=2]1. He’s a Convicted Terrorist[/h]
The New York Times first reported on Cherif in 2005. It was reported that he had become inspired to fight in jihad due to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses. Prior to the emergence of those abuses, the Liberation newspaper reported, Cherif was not a devout muslim. He had girlfriends, smoked and drank alcohol.
[h=2]2. Cherif & Said Are Orphaned Sons of Algerian Parents[/h]
The other suspects have been named as Said Kouachi, 34, and Hamyd Mourad, 18.
Here’s what we know about Cherif Kouachi and his alleged role in this atrocity:
[h=2]1. He’s a Convicted Terrorist[/h]
(Handout)
The Associated Press reported in 2008 that Cherif Kouachi had been sentenced to three years in prison in Paris for helping to funnel prospective jihadi fighters from France to Iraq. He served 18 months, with the remainder of his sentence was suspended. In that case, Cherif was named as a member of the 19th arrondissement network, named for the mainly North African neighborhood where they were based.The New York Times first reported on Cherif in 2005. It was reported that he had become inspired to fight in jihad due to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses. Prior to the emergence of those abuses, the Liberation newspaper reported, Cherif was not a devout muslim. He had girlfriends, smoked and drank alcohol.
[h=2]2. Cherif & Said Are Orphaned Sons of Algerian Parents[/h]
Said Kouachi. (Handout)
Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi were born in Paris, raised in the French city of Rennes, and later moved back to Paris, where Cherif worked as pizza delivery man, reports Liberation. The Kouachi brothers were orphaned by their Algerian-immigrant parents as children.[h=1]'Religion deserves our fearless disrespect': Salman Rushdie condemns Charlie Hebdo attack as a sign of the 'deadly mutation in the heart of Islam'[/h]
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Support: Award-winning author Salman Rushdie, pictured, today spoke out to condemn the attacks on the office of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
- Author's book The Satanic Verses prompted Iranian clergy to issue fatwa
- He spoke today after massacre by suspected Al Qaeda militants in Paris
- Mr Rushdie said that he 'stands with Charlie Hebdo to defend art of satire'
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Support: Award-winning author Salman Rushdie, pictured, today spoke out to condemn the attacks on the office of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
