Prosecutors in the French capital have launched a probe into the handlingof the news by TF1 and France 2 television stations, as well as RMC radio, following a complaint by Lilian Lepere, an employee at the printing shop in Dammartin-en-Goele near Paris, a judicial source said Tuesday.
For more than eight terrifying hours on January 9, Lepere hid under a sink in the building after the Kouachi brothers, who two days earlier had
massacred 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices, burst into the shop and locked themselves in. His boss had been taken hostage by Said and Cherif Kouachi, but they later released him and Lepere remained holed up under the sink, unwilling to move for fear of attracting the brothers' attention until they were gunned down by special forces.
France 2, TF1 and RMC all revealed that someone was hiding in the printing shop. RMC radio interviewed Yves Albarello, the lawmaker representing the area, who made the revelation. Lepere lodged a complaint last month and prosecutors launched a probe last week, the source said, according to AFP.