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French Police Storm Two Hostage Sites, Killing Charlie Hebdo Suspects Charlie Hebdo Suspects Dead in Raid; Hostage Taker in Paris Is Also Killed
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PARIS — The French police on Friday killed the two brothers suspected of murdering 12 people at a Paris newspaper on Wednesday and freed their hostage unharmed, the authorities said. The police launched a simultaneous raid on a kosher supermarket in Paris where an alleged associate of the brothers was holding a number of hostages. At least some of hostages escaped unharmed, according to the police. PARIS — The French police on Friday killed the two brothers suspected of massacring 12 people at a Paris newspaper on Wednesday and freed a hostage they had been holding unharmed, the authorities said. But at least three hostages were killed when the police staged a separate assault on a kosher supermarket in Paris.
Shortly after 5 p.m., explosions and gunfire were heard at a printing plant outside of Paris where the two brothers were holding a single hostage. Five hostages at the supermarket, on the eastern edge of Paris, were injured, and five were reported to have been freed. The hostage taker, described as an associate of the brothers, was also killed, according to a senior French police official.
Moments later, gunfire erupted at a kosher supermarket on the eastern end of Paris where an alleged associate of the brothers was holding an unknown number of hostages. One woman was seen running from the market as heavily-armed police officers moved in, according to The A.P. The first assault began shortly after 5 p.m. Explosions and gunfire were heard at a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goële, outside of Paris, where the two brothers, the suspects in the attack Wednesday on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, were holding a single hostage.
The French newspaper Le Monde reported that the supermarket hostage-taker had also been killed. Rocco Contento, spokesman for the Unité S.G.P. police union in Paris, said that the assault had unfolded rapidly and confirmed that the two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, were dead.
The gunman in the supermarket had threatened to kill his hostages if the brothers, holding their hostage at a printing plant near Dammartin-en-Goële, outside of Paris, were attacked. “The operation in Dammartin is finished,” Mr. Contento said. “The two suspects have been killed and the hostage has been freed. The special counterterrorism forces located where the terrorists are and broke down the door. They took them by surprise. It lasted a matter of minutes.”
Moments later, gunfire erupted at a kosher supermarket on the eastern end of Paris where the alleged associate of the brothers, Amedy Coulibaly, was also holding hostages. One woman was seen running from the market as heavily armed police officers moved in.
The gunman in the supermarket had threatened to kill his hostages if the Kouachi brothers were attacked.