Francois Hollande celebrated Saturday the unit and “values” of France, “freedom of expression,” the sometimes violent demonstrations that shook the Muslim world, particularly in Niger, against a caricature of the Prophet Mahomet A Charlie Hebdo.
The investigation into the attacks last week that killed seventeen people including twelve in the attack against the satirical weekly, focuses on twelve arrested on the night of Thursday to Friday in Paris. Their custody was extended Saturday from 24 hours and may still be for 48 hours on Sunday.
These eight men and four women were questioned about the possible logistical support (weapons, vehicles …) they are likely to have contributed to Amédy Coulibaly, the hostage taker kosher supermarket. They deny at this stage have been aware of the jihadist project, learned AFP source close to the investigation.
According to a police source, investigators have conducted in recent days many spinning mills persons identified from DNA elements and wiretaps in the entourage of Kouachi brothers – the killers of Charlie Hebdo. – and especially Coulibaly
In Yemen, two French linked to al-Qaeda the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which claimed the attack against Charlie Hebdo, were arrested without that one knows if he were in line with the Paris jihadists.
Said Kouachi was buried Friday at Reims, where he was installed in the presence of family members. The grave is anonymous, to prevent it from becoming a place of pilgrimage. His brother Sharif should be buried in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine)
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The edition of Charlie Hebdo survivors continues to tear with nearly 2.7 million copies have been sold since Wednesday, and it will be reprinted to a record seven million copies
But in many Muslim countries, the caricature of Mohammed. The tear in his eye and a sign “I’m Charlie” in the hands, goes wrong. New demonstrations took place on Saturday, especially in Niger, where five people died and five others in Niamey yesterday in Zinder, according to the results announced by the Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou.
“In Niamey, the balance sheet is five dead, all civilians, including four killed in churches and bars, “said Issoufou, who reported a victim found” burned in a church “Saturday morning in Zinder.
Tulle Calm has returned in the early evening in the Nigerian capital after what one resident called a “day of hell.” Faced with these riots condemned by the Quai d’Orsay, France had invited its nationals on site “to avoid any exit.” On television twenty ulema (Islamic scholars) had called for calm, stressing that “Islam is against violence.”
After Friday prayers, several events had already taken place, some of which had degenerated. In Nouakchott (Mauritania) and Dakar (Senegal), a French flag was burned.
On a visit on Saturday in his stronghold of Correze Tulle, Hollande recalled, especially for countries “supported” by Paris ” in the fight against terrorism, “that France had” principles and values ”,” including freedom of expression. ” He said it was “unacceptable” that tricolor flags are burned.
The president also condemned the “tensions” causing “unacceptable behavior” while the French justice has multiplied the procedures for apology terrorism or acts against mosques.
Despite the trauma of the attacks, the threat has reached neighboring Belgium, where a jihadist cell was dismantled Thursday, the head of state especially wanted to pass the message that “life goes on”. He invoked the “spirit of January 11,” when nearly 4 million people marched across France against terrorism, and celebrated the “unity” of the “national community”.
On the right, the president of the UMP Nicolas Sarkozy also defended “the national unity must” face the “fanaticism of radical Islam.”
But nearly eight in ten French see the mobilization citizen as “a one-time movement linked to emotion,” according to a poll released Saturday. And 76% would be in favor of “exceptional measures” even limit freedoms, according to this study Odoxa for Le Parisien / Aujourd’hui and iTV.
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