Police killed three suspects during raids on Friday one wanted in the fatal shooting of a policewoman and four hostages, the other two in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine.
The attack at the Paris office of the satirical magazine left 12 dead on Wednesday.
“The nation is relieved tonight,” Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Friday.
But the French government’s work is not over.
There’s still a lot of healing to do, a lot of questions to answer on preventing future attacks. And a woman wanted in the policewoman’s shooting is still afoot.
Charlie Hebdo attackers
The flurry of deadly events Friday started in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the suspects in the magazine attacks, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, went to a print shop in an industrial area.
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What’s next for the magazine?
Charlie Hebdo plans to go on even without its leader and cherished staffers. It’s set to publish thousands of copies of its latest edition next Wednesday.
“I don’t know if I’m afraid anymore, because I’ve seen fear. I was scared for my friends, and they are dead,” said Patrick Pelloux, a columnist for the magazine.
He and many others are defiant.
“I know that they didn’t want us to be quiet,” Pelloux said of the slain colleagues. “They would be assassinated twice, if we remained silent.”
CNN’s Jim Sciutto, Ben Brumfield, Atika Shubert, Laura Smith-Spark, Richard Greene, Fred Pleitgen, Christiane Amanpour, Jim Bittermann and Bryony Jones contributed to this report.
