French investigators have found a dozen Molotov cocktails and two jihadist flags in the getaway car used in the massacre at a Paris magazine, a source close to the case says.
"This shows their Islamist radicalisation and that they had possibly planned other acts with the petrol bombs," the source said on Thursday.
The items were found in the abandoned black Citroen used by the attackers to speed away from the offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly satirical magazine after they gunned down 12 people on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, French security forces deployed on Thursday in a northern French town where the two brothers suspected of the attack abandoned another car, a police source said.
RAID, the anti-terrorist unit of the French police force, and the GIGN, a paramilitary special operations unit, deployed in Villers-Cotterets in the northern Aisne region "where a car was abandoned after being used by the two suspects, who were identified by a witness," the source told AFP.
Cherif Kouachi, 32, a jihadist well-known to police, and his brother Said, 34, were spotted by the manager of a petrol station in the town about an hour's drive northeast of Paris, who after being robbed "formally identified" the two men.
They were described as "masked, with Kalashnikovs" and what appeared to be a rocket-launcher.
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