He could hear the suspects talking, which both helped reassure him and gave him more information to send to the forces poised outside, the source said. Cherif and Said Kouachi — who had been on the run following the slaughter of 12 people at the weekly magazine’s offices in Paris on Wednesday — had been cornered there after a firefight with police which Mr Molins said left Said with a minor neck wound. They had a hefty cache of arms including Molotov cocktails and a loaded rocket launcher.