Paris Arms Dealing Arrest As Funerals Held

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 16 Januari 2015 | 10.52

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Belgian authorities have arrested a man suspected of supplying the gunmen who killed 17 people in Paris, as funerals for the victims of the attacks continued.

Police in Charleroi are holding the man on suspicion of arms dealing after he handed himself in to police in the city on Tuesday.

He told officers he had been in touch with Amedy Coulibaly, the militant who took hostages in a Jewish supermarket in the French capital and was later killed by security forces.

According to the reports, the man said he had conned Coulibaly in a car sale.

But police later found evidence the pair were negotiating the sale of bullets for a 7.62mm caliber firearm - the type needed for the Tokarev pistol Coulibaly used in his attack on the supermarket in Paris that left four hostages dead.

A spokesman for Belgium's federal prosecution said: "The man is being held by the judge in Charleroi on suspicion of arms dealing.

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Gallery: Funerals For Charlie Hebdo Victims

The coffin of Franck Brinsolaro, the police bodyguard killed while protecting Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier

Mr Brinsolaro was one of the 12 victims killed during the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris

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Mr Brinsolaro's funeral was held at the Sainte-Croix Church in the northwestern French town of Bernay

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Police colleagues attended the service

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Mr Brinsolaro's relatives. Continue through for more images

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"Further investigations will have to show whether there is a link with the events in Paris."

Meanwhile, Malian man Lassana Bathily, who helped protect hostages in the kosher supermarket, has been given French nationality after his actions were widely praised.

It came as more funerals were held for employees of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, who were killed by brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi.

Private family funerals took place for cartoonists Georges Wolinski, 80, and Bernard "Tignous" Verlhac, 57, after they were shot dead by the pair.

The funeral for Franck Brinsolaro, one of the policemen killed, was held in Sainte-Croix de Bernay, while Elsa Cayat, the only woman killed in the attacks, was buried in Montparnasse.

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Gallery: Faces Of Paris Suspects And Victims

Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday. She is on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end

Her husband Amedy Coulibaly, 32

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Meanwhile, Barcelona-based daily newspaper La Vanguardia reported that Coulibaly spent three days in Madrid before last week's Paris attacks, with Spanish police now investigating whether he had a support cell there.

He was reportedly in Madrid between 30 December and 2 January with another person who has not yet been identified.

His partner, Hayat Boumeddiene, is known to have been in the Spanish capital before last week's attacks, but this is the first report that Coulibaly himself had been there for three days.

Turkish authorities said Boumeddiene crossed into Syria on January 8 from Turkey after arriving in Istanbul on a flight from Madrid.

:: The news emerged as security sources said the Algerian army had found the body of French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was beheaded in the country by jihadists in September.

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Written By Unknown on Rabu, 14 Januari 2015 | 10.52

Journalists from satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have held a news conference ahead of the publication of a special 'survivor's edition'.

The magazine is to publish its new edition with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on its front cover.

Mohammed is depicted crying and holding a placard with the words "I am Charlie".

Above him is the slogan "All is Forgiven".

The Charlie Hebdo staff who put the issue together said they wanted Mohammed on the cover to show they would not "cede" to extremists wanting to silence them.

Staff said they planned to print as many as three million copies of the magazine, the usual print run is 60,000.

Gerard Biard, editor-in-chief at Charlie Hebdo, said the new edition was produced "with pain and with joy".

Staff said there was "no doubt" of the future of the magazine despite saying they would take a temporary break from publishing after the new issue.

The new edition will be published in multiple languages including French, Spanish, Italian, English and Arabic and will be available on the shelves for two weeks.

France has been shaken to its core by the bloodshed that began with a jihadist assault on the offices of the magazine on January 7 and ended in a deadly hostage drama at a Jewish supermarket two days later.

Charlie Hebdo, which lampoons religion indiscriminately, had received threats after depicting Mohammed before, and its offices were firebombed in 2011.

Seventeen people lost their lives in the wave of terrorist attacks across Paris last week.

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New Charlie Hebdo Edition A Cathartic Tribute

On the eve of publishing their 'survivor's edition', the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo said: "We are drawing little characters just like children do."

The difference of course is that children's funny sketches stay on a notepad, or perhaps they are stuck onto the family fridge.

Three million copies of this week's Charlie Hebdo are being printed, and will be sold on newsstands around the world.

To the staff their weekly routine of putting it together has been a cathartic process.

They are helping each other grieve for their colleagues while paying tribute to them at the same time.

In the space of a week their niche magazine has become a global symbol for free speech.

And by choosing to depict the Prophet Mohammed on the front page, whatever the sentiment behind it, they offend millions of Muslims around the world.

Opinion is genuinely divided in Paris and not just between different faiths.

Everyone it seems has a view on it, one way or the other. That's because this matters in France - it's their society, their values that are at stake.

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French Police: Six Terrorists 'Still At Large'

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 13 Januari 2015 | 10.52

Up to six terror cell members may still be at large after the Paris attacks in which 17 people were murdered, French police have warned.

One of them has been spotted driving a car registered to the partner of one of the dead attackers, according to the authorities.

Police officials said a search was being carried out of the Paris area for the Mini Cooper car registered to Hayat Boumeddiene, the girlfriend of Amedy Coulibaly, who gunned down a police officer before killing four people in a Jewish supermarket last Friday.

The attack came after co-conspirators Said and Cherif Kouachi massacred 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

All three killers were finally cornered and died in police assaults on Friday.

France's Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, said Coulibaly "undoubtedly" had an accomplice and that "the hunt will go on" for anyone who helped him.

Boumeddiene remains on the run amid reports she has fled to Syria.

Footage has emerged of her arriving at Istanbul Airport before the attacks in Paris took place.

In a video, Coulibaly defended the atrocities and pledged allegiance to the terror group Islamic State.

Meanwhile, France has deployed nearly 5,000 police to protect Jewish schools and mobilised thousands more security forces following the terror attacks.

Three million copies are to be published of this week's Charlie Hebdo special "survivors' issue", with many of them to be made available outside of France and offered "in 16 languages".

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Gallery: Commandos Storm Supermarket

Pic: @conflictnews

Explosions rang out at the scene

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Sky Witnesses Horrors Of Ebola In Sierra Leone

The health facilities in remote parts of Sierra Leone are barely functioning with no concrete sign that the Ebola virus has been beaten.

In parts of the country like Kono district on the eastern border with Guinea, the people are feeling desperate and, in many cases, forgotten.

Until this week, Kono has no ebola treatment centre or testing facilities of its own. That meant that those suspected of contracting the virus had to travel several hours to neighbouring Kenema district for medical help - or even confirmation of the deadly disease. It is impossible to know how many people could have been infected or died en route.

Now though, there is a 48-bed facility near Koidu, the Kono district capital, and a testing laboratory will mean those with worrying symptoms can be diagnosed within five to six hours.

It should make an enormous difference but the delay is probably responsible for the latest outbreak of fresh cases (although sadly for Sierra Leoneans this is not confined to Kono).

The latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that there were nearly 600 confirmed Ebola cases in the country in the two weeks up until the end of the first week of January, more than double the numbers in Guinea and Liberia combined.

The Sky News team travelled the nine-hour journey to Kono district and discovered frantic work being done by WHO and UN aid agencies to shore up the health facilities but for many in the area, it is help which has come too late.

At Kono district hospital in Koidu, we found few nursing staff and few patients: everyone is too scared to go to the hospital or fear of catching the disease.

Two nursing staff in the maternity ward alone have died in the past week and we found few medical supplies and little protective clothing available to those staff who are still going to work.

In the 185-bed hospital, only fifteen patients are being treated and those we spoke to complained the nurses would not tend to them.

Almost as soon as we entered the hospital we found the corpse of a man laying on the floor of an empty ward.

We were told by other patients he had arrived at the hospital five days earlier but the staff suspected he had Ebola and he was directed to an empty ward and left there.

He lay there on the floor untended, ignored and unfed. We were told about him late on Saturday night but by the time we arrived early on Sunday morning, he was dead.

Nineteen-year-old Amanita Jeremiah arrived - in labour - and moaning in agony. But when she arrived at the labour unit, the overnight nurse warned everyone to be careful about contact with her because "her eyes are red and she could have Ebola".

She then went home and left the teenager in the charge of a traditional birth attendant, who had brought her to the hospital, and the hospital cleaner. Neither of them had any formal medical training. The cleaner also operated as a Traditional Birth Attendant, a role which is usually one of support for women giving birth at home and relies on cultural and traditional methods re childbirth, in her community.

Neither woman had sufficient protective clothing. One of the ways Ebola is transmitted is through bodily fluids like blood and birthing mothers who have the virus are therefore especially dangerous. The Sky News team offered them our spare safety clothing.

Amanita spent the next three hours writhing around in agony. At one stage, the cleaner used the remaining two phials of medicine in the maternity ward stocks to try to kickstart the labour. Amanita went into convulsions and had to be held down by both women who looked terrified.

Finally a nursing assistant arrived. Again we had to provide some of our spare protective clothing.

Just as the baby was being born, the cleaner fainted. She had been in her protective suit for nearly three hours. The recommended time for wearing the PPE is about 90 minutes - although many aid agencies enforce a 45-minute rule because of the suffocating heat in Sierra Leone.

Baby Emmanuel's arrival was greeted initially with elation - but he is now the latest Ebola suspect and until the disease is ruled out, he is potentially a lethal health risk.

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