'Twelve held' over Paris attacks

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16 January 2015 Last updated at 09:37
John Kerry at Charlie Hebdo office

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US Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Charlie Hebdo offices, as the BBC's Chris Eakin reports

Twelve suspects are being held by police in the Paris region over last week's attacks in the French capital that killed 17, reports say.

They are being questioned about "possible logistical support", such as weapons or vehicles, that they could have given the gunmen, a judicial source told AFP.

Police conducted raids in five towns in the Paris region, iTele reported.

Last week's violence began with an attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine.

Twelve people were killed at the Charlie Hebdo offices by two gunmen, and four by another gunman at a kosher supermarket. The following day a policewoman was shot dead while responding to a traffic accident.

All three gunmen were later shot dead by police.

In the latest development, police carried out raids in the towns of Montrouge, Grigny, Chatenay-Malabry, Epinay-sur-Seine and Fleury-Merogis overnight, iTele reported.

Also on Friday, the Gare de l'Est train station in Paris was evacuated for an hour over a bomb threat, train operator SNCF told the BBC. Services resumed at 09:00 local time (08:00 GMT), SNCF said, without giving further details.

Spain has also launched an inquiry after it was revealed that one of the Paris gunmen, Amedy Coulibaly, had visited Madrid days before the attacks.

'Pain and horror'

US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Paris to pay tribute to those killed in the attacks.

He hugged French President Francois Hollande, saying: "We share the pain and the horror of everything that you went through."

Mr Hollande said: "You've been victims yourself of an exceptional terrorist attack on September 11 [2001]. You know what it means for a country."

"We must find together appropriate responses," Mr Hollande added.

Mr Kerry laid wreaths outside the Jewish supermarket and the Charlie Hebdo offices.

Later on Friday, he will meet Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo for a remembrance ceremony.

US media had criticised the US government for not sending a high-profile representative to last Sunday's unity march in Paris, which was attended by more than 40 world leaders. The US ambassador to France did attend the rally.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Mr Kerry had "apologised" for missing the unity march, AFP reported.

Mr Kerry said that he had been unable to attend because he was visiting Bulgaria and India at the time.

Berlin raids

Meanwhile, German police say they have arrested two men following raids early on Friday.

One of the men was suspected of leading an extremist group of Turkish and Russian nationals, police added.

The group was suspected of "preparing a serious act of violence against the state in Syria", police said, but there was "no indication that the group was preparing attacks inside Germany".

Two hundred and fifty officers were involved in the raids on 11 properties, the BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin reports.


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