Families of the hostages of a radical gunman who killed four in a kosher supermarket are suing a French broadcaster over its live coverage of the attack, saying it endangered the hostages’ lives.

An Al-Jazeera journalist will face court for illegally flying a drone in Paris, amid a spate of drone flyovers that have confounded French authorities amid heightened security concerns.

At least five drones flew over the Eiffel Tower, the US Embassy and other Paris landmarks overnight, authorities said.

The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into controversial comedian Dieudonne after a Facebook post in which he said “I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.”

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor said.

Five people detained in connection with the terror attacks in France have been released from custody, the Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman said.

One suspect sought in the deadly shooting at a French satirical paper has turned himself in, as police hunt for two heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida.

Twelve people have been shot dead in a terror attack at the offices of a French satirical weekly which angered some Muslims after publishing crude caricatures of Islam’s prophet Mohammed.

Officials say that the gunmen responsible for the shooting dead of 12 people at a French satirical newspaper are still at large in Paris.

A French police officer is facing preliminary charges relating to the disappearance of 116lb (52.6kg) of cocaine from Paris police headquarters’ evidence room.

French police have identified the man arrested for shooting a newspaper assistant photographer and carrying out three other attacks.

Police have detained six people in the Paris region suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in France.

The French subsidiary of UBS has been formally put under investigation in a tax evasion case, the Paris prosecutor’s office says.

A 25-year-old man from Israel has jumped to his death from the Eiffel Tower after thwarting security measures and climbing it at twilight.