Paris, France – An 18-year old man sought by police over Wednesday’s shooting attack at satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo handed himself voluntarily to police in northeastern France, an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
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Police are hunting three French nationals, including brothers Said Kouachi, born in 1980; Cherif Kouachi, born in 1982; and Hamyd Mourad born in 1996, after suspected Islamist gunmen killed 12 people.
The official, who declined to identify the man, said he had turned himself in at a police station in Charleville-Mézières, in northeastern France at around 2300 GMT.
BFM TV, citing unidentified sources, said the man had decided to go to the police after seeing his name in social media. It said other arrests had taken place in circles linked to the two brothers.
Plea bargain expected
“I was disenfranchised, disaffected, disconnected….so I had to massacre as many people as I could”. This is excuse I have been hearing for the past few years from Muslim leaders everywhere. Strange that no other group has to massacre people.
Just because his name appears in “social media” does NOT mean he had anything to do with it. In fact, that he headed down to the police station ASAP leads me to think he had nothing to do with it and is protecting himself.