Saïd Kouachi

US officials state that Saïd and Chérif Kouachi had been listed for years in US counter-terrorism databases and on a no-fly list.

Saïd Kouachi takes part with his brother Chérif in the armed attack on the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo, in which twelve people are killed in total and several others injured.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Shared responsibility

Police officer Ahmed Merabet is killed during the Kouachi brothers' escape after the Charlie Hebdo attack.

Attribution

Shared responsibility

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the operation against Charlie Hebdo and states that it directed the attack, while the Kouachi brothers had themselves referred to Yemen and AQAP.

State of the evidence

Documented

Saïd and Chérif Kouachi barricade themselves in a printing works in Dammartin-en-Goële at the end of their flight. They are killed during the GIGN assault.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Shared responsibility

Targeted surveillance of Saïd Kouachi by French services was reportedly discontinued in summer 2014, several months before the Charlie Hebdo attack.

State of the evidence

Documented

US and Yemeni intelligence establish that Saïd Kouachi stayed in Yemen in 2011; US officials stated that he had received weapons training there from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Attribution

Directly implicated

Investigators suspect Saïd Kouachi of links to the group preparing the escape of Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem around Djamel Beghal, alongside his brother Chérif and Amedy Coulibaly.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Indirectly implicated