Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Two Suspects Arrested

Two people have been arrested in connection with the terrorist attacks in Paris on magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cache market.

The satirical magazine was attacked on 7 January when brothers Said and Chérif Kouachi forced their way in with assault rifles and other weapons, killing 11 people and injuring 11 more. After leaving the building, they killed a police officer.

There were a number of other attacks in the Île-de-France region, with a further five killed and 11 wounded and the brothers themselves were shot dead when they emerged from an industrial building two days later, firing at police.

The two suspects arrested this week were found at their home in Seine-Saint-Denis, by investigators of the anti-terrorist section of the Paris crime squad.

According to the newspaper Le Parisien, one of the two suspects, whose exact role as not been determined, was identified after he was mentioned by Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman in the supermarket hostage siege.

The supermarket incident saw Coulibaly kill four people and take hostages, which he threatened to kill if the Kouachi brothers were harmed. There were eventually 15 hostages rescued but many injured.

Le Parisien reported that the second of the two suspects arrested this week was identified "during these last hours".

Court proceedings against the two are ongoing.

Meanwhile, the suspected mastermind of an attack on a Paris Jewish restaurant in 1982 that left six people dead and 22 injured, has been arrested in Jordan.

Zuhair Mohamad Hassan Khalid al-Abassi, alias Amjad Atta, was one of three men for whom France issued an international arrest warrant earlier this year and an extradition request is understood to be underway.

Between three and five men are thought to have taken part in the attack, which was blamed on the Abu Nidal Organisation, a Palestinian militant group.