Arrests for attack on Charlie Hebdo

paris - The French police arrested three men on suspicion of involvement in the attack in Paris on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and the supermarket l \u0026 # x27; Hyper Cacher in January 2015. The arrests took place on Monday and Tuesday, according to the newspaper Le Parisien.

The three men would have been involved in supplying the attackers. The detainees are between 25 and 45 years old.

The attack on the magazine took place on 7 January and was carried out on behalf of al-Qaeda by two Algerian brothers aged 32 and 34 years. They pushed in masked Charlie Hebdo's offices where they killed eleven people. after their action, they killed another agent on the street. The duo died two days later by police bullets in the town of Dammartin-en-Goële.

On 9 January, a hostage was taken in Paris in the supermarket Hyper Cacher. The hostage taker killed four people before the police shot him. The purpose of his action was to get a safe conduct for the then two living assailants on Charlie Hebdo.