French cops scour forest for Charlie Hebdo shooters

January 09, 2015 01:56

The massive manhunt for the men behind the deadly attacks in Paris on Wednesday has moved to the tiny village of Longpont, around 50 miles northeast of the capital.

Dozens of French police and gendarmes have swept into the village as they prepare to scour the huge forest nearby forest of Retz, where the two brothers, Cherif and Said Kouachi, are believed to be hiding.

A police helicopter flew overhead and several dozen police vehicles, among them vans from the elite unit RAID, poured into the 13,000-hectare wood and the surrounding farmland.

The police convoy descended on the village of 300 people after the suspects apparently abandoned the Renault Clio they had hijacked on Wednesday nearby before fleeing on foot, leaving the vehicle stocked with Molotov cocktails and jihadists flags.

The two fugitive suspects are French-born sons of Algerian-born parents, both in their early 30s, and already under police surveillance. One was jailed for 18 months for trying to travel to Iraq a decade ago to fight as part of an Islamist cell. Officials said they were armed and dangerous.

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