Paris shooting: Brothers 'radicalised by cleric' and were on US no-fly list

The brothers believed to have massacred 12 people in Paris were poverty-stricken orphans set on the path to terrorism by a radical preacher.

The manhunt for the two brothers wanted over Wednesday's attack on a satirical magazine office in Paris is into its third day.

Thousands of police officers are combing an area of forest north of the French capital looking for Said and Cherif Kouachi.