The 'Charlie Hebdo' and Hype Casher attacks: Three days of blood, terror and tears:
Long ReadFrom the offices of the satirical newspaper to a kosher supermarket, this is the story of the attacks of January 7-9, 2015, and the hunt for their perpetrators, the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly.
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, at 10:19 am, Chérif Kouachi sent a text message to Amedy Coulibaly on the line dedicated solely to their exchanges. The message was deleted, but it was probably the kick-off to three days of blood and gunpowder, three days of terror that changed France. These two names, hitherto known only to the police, would soon emerge from anonymity.
A little over an hour later, at 11:30 am, two hooded men dressed in black and armed with assault rifles, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, aged 32 and 34, parked their Citroën C3 in front of 6 Allée Verte, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. They entered the premises of a company. The taller of them, Chérif, shot a bullet into the ground as he asked where the Charlie Hebdo offices were. He went upstairs and fired another shot at the ceiling. One of the brothers said, "You'll tell them we came from al-Qaida in Yemen."
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