LIVE BLOG: Paris Charlie Hebdo attack

French officials saying there have been several attacks on mosques in France since the Charlie Hebdo attack, AFP reports: There were reports this morning of an explosion at a kebab shop near a mosque in eastern France. 

AP has more on the incident before the death of the officer was reported: 

A police officer and a street sweeper were shot and gravely wounded at the southern edge of Paris on Thursday, raising tensions a day after masked gunmen stormed the offices of a satirical newspaper and killed 12 people.

The attacker in the pre-dawn shooting Thursday remained at large, said French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. He cautioned against jumping to any conclusions about the attack, which has not been linked to the assault on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which left two police officers among the dead.

In the Thursday shooting, he said the officer had stopped to investigate a traffic accident when the firing started. Paris police said the second victim was a street sweeper.

“There was an officer in front of a white car and a man running away who shot,” said Ahmed Sassi, who saw the shooting from his home nearby. He said the shooter wore dark clothes but no mask. “It didn’t look like a big gun because he held it with one hand,” Sassi said.

Cazeneuve left an emergency government meeting to travel to the scene of Thursday’s shooting. France is on its highest level of alert after the deadly attacks at Charlie Hebdo’s central Paris offices.

Video has emerged of heavily armed French special forces searching an apartment in Reims for suspects connected with the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in Paris:

Le Figaro has this video apparently showing Cherif Kouachi - the younger of the two brothers currently on the run, and a known terrorist - in 2005 

A photo has emeged of Ahmed Merabet, the French Muslim police officer who killed in Wednesday's attack on Charlie Hebdo. 

Not long after the incident, video of the Charlie Hebdo shooting emerged on the Internet, with a camera from a few floors above the street capturing two gunmen in a shootout with Merabet.

Police are reporting a second shooting in which a policewoman and a city employee have been critically wounded after a man fired on them with an automatic rifle south of Paris.

A suspect has been detained following the incident near Porte de Chatillon.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuveout is on his way to the scene, but police say no link has yet been established between this shooting and the deadly magazine attack.

AFP is quoting a local official as saying that the bomb blast in eastern France was a “criminal act” and not linked to yesterday’s Charlie Hebdo attack.