French police on Thursday asked people not to spread rumors or unverified information as they hunted for two at-large suspects in Wednesday’s deadly terror attack on the Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
France’s national police tweeted that doing so would hinder their work, according to the New York Times. They also asked that people only share information from authorities’ accounts on the social network:
[#CharlieHebdo] Ne perturbez pas le travail des policiers enquêteurs en diffusant de fausses informations ou #rumeurs
— Police Nationale (@PNationale) January 8, 2015
[#CharlieHebdo] Ne relayez que les informations officielles communiquées par les autorités (@PNationale @Place_Beauvau @prefpolice …)
— Police Nationale (@PNationale) January 8, 2015
[#CharlieHebdo] Ne contribuez pas à la diffusion de photos/vidéos/comptes malveillants
Ne les PARTAGEZ pas
Ne les LIKEZ pas
Ne les RT pas
— Police Nationale (@PNationale) January 8, 2015
The warning came after unconfirmed reports that the two suspects were spotted at a gas station in northern France.
Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi were identified late Wednesday as suspects in the attack. A third suspect, 18-year-old Mourad Hamyd, turned himself in at a police station in the eastern region of France.
As of Thursday morning, there were no official or confirmed reports on the Kouachi brothers’ whereabouts.
