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| Journalists, police officers, and emergency services in the street following Charlie Hebdo shooting spree [PHOTO: Thierry Caro/CC BY-SA 4.0] |
Paris: A women police officer has been killed and one has been gravely wounded in a fresh shooting on the southern edge of Paris, French media reports.
France's top security official left an emergency government meeting to travel to the scene
of Thursday's shooting, which comes amid high tensions. France is on its highest
level of alert.
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Identity photograph of
Saïd Kouachi's identification
card, left in the getaway car
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According to reports, the attackers fled in a metro following the incident.
Several people have been detained in the hunt for the suspects in the
January 7 attack that killed 12 people at the offices of satirical weekly
Charlie Hebdo.
Police are searching for Cherif Kouachi, 32, who was convicted in 2008
for involvement in a network sending fighters to Iraq, and his brother
Said, 34.
France declared January 8 a day of mourning following the worst militant
attack in the country in decades.
President Francois Hollande has called the assault on the Charlie Hebdo
staff "barbaric" and said "the entire republic" was the victim.