PARIS : Police arrested a dozen people suspected of helping the Islamist militant gunmen in last week’s Paris killings, the city prosecutor’s office said today as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived for talks. The arrests came after Belgian police killed two men who fired on them during one of about a dozen raids yesterday against an Islamist group and German police said they had arrested two people following a raid on 11 properties linked to radical Salafists.
Centred on southern Paris suburbs including the Montrouge area where a young policewoman was killed in the attacks, the arrests were for suspected ‘logistical support’ for the shootings, an official said.
Seventeen victims and the three attackers died in three days of violence in Paris last week that began with an assault on the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Paris’s Gare de l’Est train station was evacuated at 8:00 am local time 1230 IST after an alert but reopened about an hour later, the SNCF state railway said, without giving further details.
Kerry met French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius early on Friday before greeting President Francois Hollande with a hug in the courtyard of the Elysee presidential palace. (AGENCIES)
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