Posted on 08/19/2015 7:49:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A man who hid under a sink from the Charlie Hebdo gunmen for eight hours has accused French media of endangering his life. Paris prosecutors have opened an inquiry into broadcasters' handling of January's police siege of the Kouachi brothers, who had previously killed 12 people at the satirical paper's offices.
Graphic designer Lilian Lepère, 26, hid in a cupboard under a sink in the printshop where he worked in Dammartin-en-Goële, near Paris, as police laid siege to Saïd and Chérif Kouachi.
... Lepère's sister Cindy confirmed in an interview with France 2 that her brother was probably inside and that the family had stopped phoning him to avoid revealing his whereabouts.
Lepère lawyer, Antoine Casubolo-Ferro, welcomed the official investigation, saying that it would "make the media think twice next time".
Another case is already under way against the BFMTV TV channel for revealing that someone was hiding in the cold store of the kosher supermarket in which the Kouachis' accomplice, Amédy Coulibaly, was holed up.
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