Trained As Assassins With Links To Terror Groups: Police Locate Suspects Paris Massacre

Two armed suspects wanted over the Charlie Hebdo massacre have been located in northern France, according to reports. Two men fitting the description of brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi were seen in L’Aisne, a department in the Picardy region, near Reims this morning, according to Le Parisien. A petrol station attendant was said to have identified the men, who were driving a white Renault Clio in the direction of Paris 'with exposed Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers' inside the vehicle, a source told RTL.

It came as the manhunt continued for the 'armed and dangerous' brothers who have links to terror groups stretching back almost a decade.  Their alleged getaway driver Hamyd Mourad, 18, has already turned himself into police in Charleville-Mezieres in northern France.

All three French-Algerian Muslims escaped yesterday following the bloodbath at the offices of the notoriously anti-Islamist satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris.

In 2008, Cherif was sentenced to three years in prison for terror offences but served just 18 months. Questions will be asked why once again young Frenchmen with close links to radical Islam and its terrorist affiliates were apparently given free rein to carry out their crimes.

The fact that two were still at large almost 24 hours after a gun battle in which two policemen died alongside ten others, mainly magazine staff, was also a cause for huge concern.

Source: CNN | DailyMail