Witness: I Shook Hands With Terror Suspect

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   A salesman has described how he "shook hands" with one of the brothers wanted in connection with the Charlie Hebdo attack in which 12 people were killed.
   A salesman has described how he "shook hands" with one of the brothers wanted in connection with the Charlie Hebdo attack in which 12 people were killed.
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  Two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris have taken one person hostage as police cornered the gunmen in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris. Blasts and gunfire have been heard in the building

The man, who identified himself as Didier, said it happened when he went for a routine meeting with a client print firm CTD - which is now the centre of a siege between the suspects and police.
When he arrived for the meeting at the company's office in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, he had no idea fugitives Said and Cherif Kouachi were holed up there.

The building where the brothers are under siege

Didier told France Inter radio: "When I arrived my client (Michel) came out with an armed man who said he was from the police. My client told me to leave so I left.
"I was in front of the door. I shook Michel's hand and I shook the hand of one of the terrorists."

Security Forces Close On Suspects

He said the man, who was wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying what looked like a Kalashnikov rifle, told him: "'Leave, we don't kill civilians anyhow'.
"That really struck me, so I decided to call the police. I guess it was one of the terrorists."
Didier said he had not recognised the terror suspect.
"It could have been a policeman if he hadn't told me 'we don't kill civilians'," he said. "They were heavily armed like elite police.
"I didn't know it was a hostage situation, or a robbery. I just knew something wasn't quite right."
The man whose car was hijacked in Paris by the brothers immediately after the magazine attack has also been speaking of his experience.

He told radio station Europe 1 that he was not aware of the attack when the driver of another car got out and approached him near the Porte de Pantin.
He said: "The driver got out of his car, armed with a rifle. I knew later it was a Kalashnikov. I had my window open. He said to me, 'Get out of your car, we need your car.
"The man carried on and at that moment a second person turned up and got into the passenger side with a gun and a kind of grenade as well. Definitely a grenade-launcher, something like that."
He said the men, who let him take his dog from the car, did not raise their voices once.

Can They Be Captured Alive?

They were "very calm, very determined, very composed and very professional, like commandos. They weren't sweating. Nothing like that. They seemed like people carrying out an operation."
Before driving off they asked him pass on a message.
"They said to me, 'If ever you are asked, if the media questions you, you tell them it's al Qaeda in Yemen'."