Kouachi brothers, French manhunt

The Kouachi brothers have been killed after an intense French manhunt, and others have also been identified as radical extremists as a result. Citizens of France lived in terror for 3 days as law enforcement searched for the Kouachi brothers who were responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre. When 3 gunmen entered the newspaper office after threatening a female staffer and her daughter if the woman did not enter the code they opened fire, killing 12 staff members of the publication and wounding others. The gunmen were the Kouachi brothers and their 18 year old brother in law. On Friday the two brothers took a hostage at a printing company to the north of Paris, where they were killed during the siege. Police have since determined that the subjects of the French manhunt had assistance from others with radicalized views.

On Thursday, one day after the Charlie Hebdo attack, Amedy Coulibaly shot a police woman, and on Friday Coulibaly and possibly his wife by Islamic ceremony Hayat Boumeddiene took hostages in a small grocery store. Coulibaly told journalists that he coordinated his attacks with the brothers before he was killed. After the French manhunt for the Kouachi brothers ended both men were dead, along with one accomplice. Police are still searching for Boumeddiene who has disappeared, and they are saying she should be considered dangerous and possibly armed. Police in France are asking every citizen to be vigilant, both to locate the widow of Coulibaly and to report any suspicious activity to prevent copycat acts by other radicals.