France faces 2 hostage-taking attacks; 1 on kosher market

[Valin]

AP:

LORI HINNANT and RAPHAEL SATTER

Jan. 9 2014

 

DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France (AP) -- French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the other an attack on a kosher market in Paris involving at least five hostages.

 

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The two brothers suspected in the newspaper slayings were cornered by police Friday inside a printing house in the small industrial town of Dammartin-en-Goele. One lawmaker said they told negotiators they "want to die as martyrs."

 

Hours later, a gunman seized an unknown number of hostages at a kosher market in eastern Paris, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said. A police official, who was not authorized to speak to the media about the events, told The Associated Press the man who has taken five people hostage in a kosher market appears linked to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

 

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[Valin]

Hostage-taker at Paris market linked to newspaper attack

Jan 9 2014

 

PARIS (AP) -- A police official says the man who has taken at least five people hostage in a kosher market on the eastern edges of Paris Friday appears linked to the newsroom massacre earlier this week that left 12 people dead.

 

The official, who was not authorized to speak about the situation, said the man opened fire in the kosher market, near Paris' Porte de Vincennes, and declared "you know who I am."

 

Paris police released a photo of Amedy Coulibaly as a suspect in the killing Thursday of a policewoman, and the official named him as the man holed up in the market. He said the man is armed with an automatic rifle and some hostages have been gravely wounded.

 

He said a second suspect, a woman named Hayet Boumddiene, is the gunman's accomplice.

 

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[Valin]

The Lead CNN

‏@TheLeadCNN

 

Children are leaving school under police escort near the first standoff site: http://cnn.it/1xMov5J #ParisAttack

 

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16.26 So the reports coming through in French media is that the hostage taken by the Charlie Hebdo gunmen in Dammartin and several hostages at the kosher grocery in eastern Paris have been freed.

16.24 Charlie Hebdo hostage freed in Dammartin - Kouachi brothers both killed, AFP reports.

16.22 Several hostages apparently freed at the kosher grocery.

16.18 The Charlie Hebdo suspects have been killed, AFP reports.

16.18 People are running away from the kosher grocery.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11329976/Paris-Charlie-Hebdo-attack-live.html

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@Valin it seems it is all over. 15 dead and 3 dead evil peace loving muzzies.

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Wonder if the French had help. Seems pretty aggressive of a response and ending for them..

[Valin]

Wonder if the French had help. Seems pretty aggressive of a response and ending for them..

 

 

The French can be very aggressive when they choose to be.

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Telegraph:

 

18.35 More on what the gunman told French TV from Henry Samuel:

Cherif Kouachi told BFMTV that he had been funded by a network loyal to Anwar al-Awlaki, the former American-born leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who was killed by a drone strike in 2011 in Yemen.

Coulibaly swore allegiance to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, and told BFMV the terrorist attacks were “synchronised”.

[righteousmomma]

 

Wonder if the French had help. Seems pretty aggressive of a response and ending for them..

 

 

The French can be very aggressive when they choose to be.

 

True.

Contrary to caricatures of them.

[Pepper]

16.26 So the reports coming through in French media is that the hostage taken by the Charlie Hebdo gunmen in Dammartin and several hostages at the kosher grocery in eastern Paris have been freed.

16.24 Charlie Hebdo hostage freed in Dammartin - Kouachi brothers both killed, AFP reports.

16.22 Several hostages apparently freed at the kosher grocery.

16.18 The Charlie Hebdo suspects have been killed, AFP reports.

16.18 People are running away from the kosher grocery.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11329976/Paris-Charlie-Hebdo-attack-live.html

 

thanks for link

 

 

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http://www.france24.com/en/livefeed/

Edited January 9, 2015 by Pepper

[Valin]

Duane Patterson @Radioblogger ·
40 minutes ago

 

The French PM just said, "We are in a war against terrorism, here in France and abroad." Huh. Think anyone ought to let Obama know?

 

[Valin]

This Muslim Man Saved Several Hostages During The Paris Kosher Market Siege

Lassana Bathily is being hailed as a hero.

David Mack

Jan. 10 2015

 

Four people were killed Friday when the terrorist Amedy Coulibaly took several hostages inside a Kosher market in Paris, but that number may well have been higher were it not for a quick-thinking employee of the market named Lassana Bathily.

 

 

Bathily, a 24-year-old Muslim from Mali, was working in the store in the Porte de Vincennes neighborhood when the Islamist gunman burst in.

As panic ensued, up to 15 customers in the store hurried down to the store basement, when Bathily had an idea.

When they ran down, I opened the door [to the freezer], he told Frances BFMTV.

He quickly shut off the freezer and switched off its light. As he closed the door to shelter the customers inside, he told them, Stay calm here. Im going out.

 

Eventually police raided the market, killing Coulibaly. As the hostages were freed from the freezer, they had a few words of thanks for Bathily. They congratulated me, he told BFMTV.

 

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