Paris Attack: Terror Raid Under Way In Reims

[riversedge]

I have not heard anything else about this....



http://news.sky.com/story/1403975/paris-attack-terror-raid-under-way-in-reims

Paris Attack: Terror Raid Under Way In Reims

French nationals Said and Cherif Kouachi and Hamyd Mourad are named as suspects over the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo.

22:43, UK, Wednesday 07 January 2015
Video: Special Report: Paris Attack


An anti-terror raid has been launched in north-eastern France after 12 people were killed during a gun attack on a newspaper office, according to reports.

AFP news agency reported that French police had begun the raid in Reims on Wednesday night.

Two brothers and a third man have been identified as suspects behind the attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris.

The men have been named as French nationals Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, in their early 30s, along with 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad.

[riversedge]

1. Reims lies (80 mi) east-northeast of Paris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reims


Reims (/ˈriːmz/; also spelt Rheims; French: [ʁɛ̃s][1]), a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies 129 km (80 mi) east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire.

[MohRokTah]

7. And is on the way from Paris to Belgium.

They needed to get out of the country in order to slow pursuit.

[Warpy]

2. I hope they're the right guys

It seems that people fingered them very quickly.

[riversedge]

3. msnbc is reporting this--but not much information given (just now)

[PeoViejo]

4. Leaving behind stolen ID is not a new trick.

I hope these are the right suspects.

Even a small diversion like this would give the perps a head-start.

[NaturalHigh]

5. I was thinking the same thing.

If these are the right guys, more power to the police. Lock the bastards away and toss out the key.

[riversedge]

6. One suspect killed and 2 in custody per msnbc just now

[mylye2222]

8. MSNBC is wrong.

According to French BFMTV. ... the assailt haq not begun. Police only searched a now empty Reims appartement.

[icymist]

9. Here's a second source of the raid happening. From Linternaute.com through Google Translate

ACTUALITE Reims : "ça va rafaler", le RAID en mouvement dans le quartier de la Croix Rouge
Une opération de police est en cours à Reims, où les terroristes présumés de l'attentat de Charlie Hebdo auraient pu se retrancher dans la journée. Le RAID est déjà sur place depuis plusieurs heures. Une intervention armée d'envergure semble désormais imminente. Lire

NEWS Reims: "it will rafaler" RAID moving in the neighborhood of the Red Cross
A police operation is underway in Reims, where suspected terrorists for the bombing of Charlie Hebdo could take refuge in the day. RAID is already in place for several hours. A major military action now seems imminent. read

http://www.linternaute.com/actualite/societe-france/reims-ca-va-rafaler-selon-le-raid-siege-dans-le-quartier-de-la-croix-rouge-0115.shtml

A police operation is underway in Reims, where suspected terrorists for the bombing of Charlie Hebdo could take refuge in the day. RAID is already in place for several hours. A major military action now seems imminent.

[Updated January 8, 2015 at 00:01] RAID is on site. Police helicopters flew over the area. It is in Reims, in the district of the Red Cross, the attack of Charlie Hebdo could know its epilogue with a speech against the three suspected terrorists. These three men, Sharif Said and Kouachi brothers and Hamyd Mourad, could retreat into the stronghold of the Marne since the end of the day. Since the end of the afternoon, searches and a larger police operation is underway in the district of the Red Cross, completely sealed off.

According to a RAID officer, who told AFP, "it will rafaler" said the news agency. The operation was announced "major" about 23 hours depending on the point of the website. The journalists were called for caution by the police. The operation would take place at three different sites according Liberation. A convoy of about fifty police vehicles left the barracks of the CRS 33 in Reims, in the district of the Red Cross shortly before midnight, according to BFM TV.

Pantin in Reims
The three suspects who allegedly took Charlie Hebdo attacked and killed twelve people were identified in the afternoon by the police. Said Kouachi, 34, his brother Sharif, 32 and Hamyd Mourad, 18, were betrayed by an identity card, left by one of them in the first vehicle used by the commando, to make newspaper offices at the door of Pantin, where they stole a second vehicle to leave Paris.

They have therefore taken the direction of Reims if one believes the latest information

[riversedge]

10. Can the USA now capture the #NAACPBombing in Colorado?