PARIS (AP) — A French police official says a pair of brothers suspected in the storming of a satirical newspaper appear to have taken a hostage.
Xavier Castaing, chief spokesman for Paris regional police, spoke as a massive operation unfolded Friday in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, near Charles de Gaulle airport.
Helicopters and hundreds of security forces backed by ambulances streamed to the town, where the brothers were believed to be holed up.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed the operation to seize the armed pair, who are suspected in the bloody storming of Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
Twelve people died in the central Paris attack on Wednesday.
