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Paris shooters inhumane: RI churches
The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) expressed on Thursday its deep concern over Wednesday's deadly shooting in the French capital of Paris, calling on nations to work hand in hand to combat terrorism
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he Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) expressed on Thursday its deep concern over Wednesday's deadly shooting in the French capital of Paris, calling on nations to work hand in hand to combat terrorism.
'We regret that this kind of attack continues to happen and that such inhumane attackers are still out there,' PGI executive secretary Jeirry Sumampow told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
The PGI strongly condemned the shootings, he added. 'The PGI supports the efforts to bring the attackers to justice,' he said, adding that the PGI also conveyed deep condolences to the victims' families.
'We call on nations to formulate strategies to eradicate terrorism, which is the enemy of everyone, regardless of religion,' Jeirry said.
The French police launched a manhunt on Thursday for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris in a presumed Islamist militant strike that national leaders and allied states described as an assault on democracy.
The attackers escaped by car after shooting dead some of France's top cartoonists as well as two police officers.
The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police turned himself into police, an official at the Paris prosecutor's office said.
The suspects are said to be Said Kouachi, born in 1980, Cherif Kouachi (1982), both from Paris, and Hamyd Mourad, born in 1996, Reuters reported.
Police released photos of the two French nationals still at large, calling them "armed and dangerous": brothers Cherif, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, both of whom had been under surveillance by security services.
The massacre, the country's bloodiest attack in half a century, triggered poignant and spontaneous demonstrations of solidarity around the world. (nvn)(++++)
