Paris: Islamist Takes Man Hostage in Kosher Grocery Store
UPDATE: The entire city of Paris is on lock-down.
Trocadero Square Evacuated Near EIFFEL TOWER – Reports of Armed Incident
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From our Anonymous helper:
This is yet another hostage situation - in addition to the Hebdo duo cornered with one female hostage in a printing house near Charles de Gualle airport. Three others in the same facility managed to get out. Several schools evacuated around town where massacre suspects holed up: official Some 200 children from a pre-school, primary school and high school "will be transported to the town gymnasium where their parents can collect them," said a spokesperson for the town council.
It also emerged today that authorities believe there is a link between the brothers and the suspected perpetrator of a shooting yesterday in the Parisian suburb of Montrouge in which a female police officer was killed. link
1 wounded in kosher supermarket shooting in Paris French media report shooter is suspect who shot policewoman and was member of same jihadist group as Charlie Hebdo suspects. Reuters/ynet
Charlie Hebdo murderers were on U.S. no-fly list: Brothers had been flagged as terrorist risk BEFORE Paris attack
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2901860/2-brothers-wanted-men-France.html#ixzz3OKRi0GF6
Exclusive: Paris attack suspect met prominent al Qaeda preacher in Yemen - intelligence source Reuters
Paris gunman was from same jihadist cell as Hebdo suspects - police
Charlie Hebdo murderers were on U.S. no-fly list: Brothers had been flagged as terrorist risk BEFORE Paris attack
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2901860/2-brothers-wanted-men-France.html#ixzz3OKRi0GF6
Exclusive: Paris attack suspect met prominent al Qaeda preacher in Yemen - intelligence source Reuters
Paris gunman was from same jihadist cell as Hebdo suspects - police
UK Daily Telegraph: Paris Charlie Hebdo attack: live
Terrorists take hostage 'and kill two people' as police surround 'war zone' industrial complex in Dammartin, while in Paris gunman takes hostages at Jewish kosher grocery - latest updates
Terrorists take hostage 'and kill two people' as police surround 'war zone' industrial complex in Dammartin, while in Paris gunman takes hostages at Jewish kosher grocery - latest updates
A report from AFP just now stated that there are five hostages at the grocery store.
13.28 French media have published a picture of what they are saying is the suspect in the kosher grocery siege, who is thouhgt to have been the gunman who shot dead a policewoman yesterday morning: Image of the kosher grocer's terrorist's mug shot
13.22 RTL saying that two people have died during the hostage-taking at the kosher grocery in eastern Paris.
13.22 RTL saying that two people have died during the hostage-taking at the kosher grocery in eastern Paris.
According to Fox News on my cable channel, women and children are being held hostage in the kosher grocery.
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13.32 The French police press release also details a woman called Hayat Boumeddiene. They describe both as armed and dangerous and have asked for anyone who recognises them to come forward: Boumeddiene is apparently the girlfriend of Coulibaly. via The Telegraph live feed
The kosher market was likely targeted as it is likely busiest in the hours preparing for shabbat.
It is irresponsible for any jewish organization or business to be open WITHOUT some kind of protection ..including ILLEGAL WEAPONS
It is RIDICULOUS for jews to remain in Europe.
It is RIDICULOUS for jews to remain in Europe.
image 10:34 Extra resources including special forces as well as gendarmarie - and a tank - are still arriving at the hostage scene, around 40 miles NE of Paris...
14.04 One person has been seriously wounded in the hostage-taking incident at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday, a police union source said.
The interior ministry denied press reports that two people had been killed.
The interior ministry denied press reports that two people had been killed.
via Telegraph @ 14.25: Amedy Coulibaly in the kosher grocery siege in eastern Paris is reportedly demanding through hostage negotiators that the Kouachi brothers - currently part of a seige in Dammartin-en-Goele - be "freed".
The Telegraph's Henry Samuel explains the suspects' backgrounds:
Coulbaly, a Frenchman of Senegalese descent from Juvisy in the Essonne area outside Paris, was part of the now notorious Buttes-Chaumont network that sought to recruit and sent radicalised French youths to Iraq in the early 2000s.
The Koachi brothers were also part of the network, based in Paris’ 19th
arrondissement.
One of 10 children and the only boy, Coulibaly became a delinquent at 17, and a repeat offender for petty thefts and drugs crimes, moving onto an armed bank robbery in September 2002 in Orleans, in the Loiret, before radicalising.
In 2013, he was convicted to five years in prison for his involvement in a
botched prison break-out of Smain Ali Belkacem, a former member of the
Algerian Islamist group GIA and the author of a 1995 attack on the Paris
transport system that killed eight people and wounded 117.
The Koachi brothers were arrested and detained for involvement in the
Belkacem breakout, but later released due to lack of evidence.
According to Le Monde, the Coulbaly and Boumeddiene were already in a relationship in 2010, when he was arrested over the jailbreak attempt. She reportedly waited for her boyfriend to be released from prison this Spring after four years in detention, and he lived with her after that in a Paris suburb.
The pair reportedly visited Beghal in 2010 in Cantal, southern France,
where he was under house arrest. That year, French surveillance officers
photographed Beghal playing football with Cherif Kouachi and two other
convicted terrorists, Ahmed Laidouni, a jihadi recruiter, and Farid Melouk,
an Algerian member of the GIA terror group.
Quizzed by French intelligence agents at the time, Boumeddiene told them that she and Coulbaly had gone there to practice “crossbow shooting”
Coulbaly, a Frenchman of Senegalese descent from Juvisy in the Essonne area outside Paris, was part of the now notorious Buttes-Chaumont network that sought to recruit and sent radicalised French youths to Iraq in the early 2000s.
The Koachi brothers were also part of the network, based in Paris’ 19th
arrondissement.
One of 10 children and the only boy, Coulibaly became a delinquent at 17, and a repeat offender for petty thefts and drugs crimes, moving onto an armed bank robbery in September 2002 in Orleans, in the Loiret, before radicalising.
In 2013, he was convicted to five years in prison for his involvement in a
botched prison break-out of Smain Ali Belkacem, a former member of the
Algerian Islamist group GIA and the author of a 1995 attack on the Paris
transport system that killed eight people and wounded 117.
The Koachi brothers were arrested and detained for involvement in the
Belkacem breakout, but later released due to lack of evidence.
According to Le Monde, the Coulbaly and Boumeddiene were already in a relationship in 2010, when he was arrested over the jailbreak attempt. She reportedly waited for her boyfriend to be released from prison this Spring after four years in detention, and he lived with her after that in a Paris suburb.
The pair reportedly visited Beghal in 2010 in Cantal, southern France,
where he was under house arrest. That year, French surveillance officers
photographed Beghal playing football with Cherif Kouachi and two other
convicted terrorists, Ahmed Laidouni, a jihadi recruiter, and Farid Melouk,
an Algerian member of the GIA terror group.
Quizzed by French intelligence agents at the time, Boumeddiene told them that she and Coulbaly had gone there to practice “crossbow shooting”
According to @CNN, the French policewoman shot dead yesterday was in the vicinity of the intended target of attack: a Jewish primary school.
Telegraph @14.54 Paris police fear more attacks on Jewish neighourhoods and have ordered shop closures, according to AP
BREAKING: Police order all shops closed in famed Jewish neighborhood in central Paris far from attacks.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2015
The mayor's office in Paris announced the closures Friday of shops along the Rosiers street in Paris' Marais neighborhood, in the heart of the tourist district and about a kilometer away from the offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo where 12 people were killed on Wednesday.
Hours before the Jewish Sabbath, the street is usually especially rowded with shoppers - French Jews and tourists alike.
The Vincennes region of eastern Paris in which the second, grocery hostage situation is taking place has a large Jewish population.
There has also been speculation that the attack in which a policewoman was killed yesterday in Montrouge was an aborted attempt to attack a Jewish school there.
Telegraph @14.54 Paris police fear more attacks on Jewish neighourhoods and have ordered shop closures, according to AP
BREAKING: Police order all shops closed in famed Jewish neighborhood in central Paris far from attacks.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2015
The mayor's office in Paris announced the closures Friday of shops along the Rosiers street in Paris' Marais neighborhood, in the heart of the tourist district and about a kilometer away from the offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo where 12 people were killed on Wednesday.
Hours before the Jewish Sabbath, the street is usually especially rowded with shoppers - French Jews and tourists alike.
The Vincennes region of eastern Paris in which the second, grocery hostage situation is taking place has a large Jewish population.
There has also been speculation that the attack in which a policewoman was killed yesterday in Montrouge was an aborted attempt to attack a Jewish school there.
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This is yet another hostage situation - in addition to the Hebdo duo cornered with one female hostage in a printing house near Charles de Gualle airport. Three others in the same facility managed to get out. Several schools evacuated around town where massacre suspects holed up: official Some 200 children from a pre-school, primary school and high school "will be transported to the town gymnasium where their parents can collect them," said a spokesperson for the town counci
It also emerged today that authorities believe there is a link between the brothers and the suspected perpetrator of a shooting yesterday in the Parisian suburb of Montrouge in which a female police officer was killed. link
1 wounded in kosher supermarket shooting in Paris French media report shooter is suspect who shot policewoman and was member of same jihadist group as Charlie Hebdo suspects. Reuters/ynet
Charlie Hebdo murderers were on U.S. no-fly list: Brothers had been flagged as terrorist risk BEFORE Paris attack
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2901860/2-brothers-wanted-men-France.html#ixzz3OKRi0GF6
Exclusive: Paris attack suspect met prominent al Qaeda preacher in Yemen - intelligence source Reuters
Paris gunman was from same jihadist cell as Hebdo suspects - police
UK Daily Telegraph: Paris Charlie Hebdo attack: live
Terrorists take hostage 'and kill two people' as police surround 'war zone' industrial complex in Dammartin, while in Paris gunman takes hostages at Jewish kosher grocery - latest updates
A report from AFP just now stated that there are five hostages at the grocery store.
13.28 French media have published a picture of what they are saying is the suspect in the kosher grocery siege, who is thouhgt to have been the gunman who shot dead a policewoman yesterday morning: Image of the kosher grocer's terrorist's mug shot
13.22 RTL saying that two people have died during the hostage-taking at the kosher grocery in eastern Paris.
According to Fox News on my cable channel, women and children are being held hostage in the kosher grocery.
It is irresponsible for any jewish organization or business to be open WITHOUT some kind of protection ..including ILLEGAL WEAPONS
It is RIDICULOUS for jews to remain in Europe.
13.32 The French police press release also details a woman called Hayat Boumeddiene. They describe both as armed and dangerous and have asked for anyone who recognises them to come forward: Boumeddiene is apparently the girlfriend of Coulibaly. via The Telegraph live feed
The kosher market was likely targeted as it is likely busiest in the hours preparing for shabbat.
It is irresponsible for any jewish organization or business to be open WITHOUT some kind of protection ..including ILLEGAL WEAPONS
It is RIDICULOUS for jews to remain in Europe.
Exactly.
image 10:34 Extra resources including special forces as well as gendarmarie - and a tank - are still arriving at the hostage scene, around 40 miles NE of Paris...
14.04 One person has been seriously wounded in the hostage-taking incident at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday, a police union source said.
The interior ministry denied press reports that two people had been killed.
I can't help but wonder what, if any exist, are the six degrees of separation between Boumeddiene (unveiled girlfriend of terrorist #3 mentioned above) and the young mother of the kindergarden child involved in giving access to Hebdo headquarters to these jihadists.
via Telegraph @ 14.25: Amedy Coulibaly in the kosher grocery siege in eastern Paris is reportedly demanding through hostage negotiators that the Kouachi brothers - currently part of a seige in Dammartin-en-Goele - be "freed".
Anonymous,
You might have a valid point about those six degrees of separation.
Always...I hope I'm wrong, but I had a nagging feeling about the sheer coincidence that she had her daughter with her at the office. Someone, maybe it wasn't this young mother, but someone betrayed Hebdo's security measures or inadvertently let their guard down about details which enabled this targeted hit.
The Telegraph's Henry Samuel explains the suspects' backgrounds:
Coulbaly, a Frenchman of Senegalese descent from Juvisy in the Essonne area outside Paris, was part of the now notorious Buttes-Chaumont network that sought to recruit and sent radicalised French youths to Iraq in the early 2000s.
The Koachi brothers were also part of the network, based in Paris’ 19th
arrondissement.
One of 10 children and the only boy, Coulibaly became a delinquent at 17, and a repeat offender for petty thefts and drugs crimes, moving onto an armed bank robbery in September 2002 in Orleans, in the Loiret, before radicalising.
In 2013, he was convicted to five years in prison for his involvement in a
botched prison break-out of Smain Ali Belkacem, a former member of the
Algerian Islamist group GIA and the author of a 1995 attack on the Paris
transport system that killed eight people and wounded 117.
The Koachi brothers were arrested and detained for involvement in the
Belkacem breakout, but later released due to lack of evidence.
According to Le Monde, the Coulbaly and Boumeddiene were already in a relationship in 2010, when he was arrested over the jailbreak attempt. She reportedly waited for her boyfriend to be released from prison this Spring after four years in detention, and he lived with her after that in a Paris suburb.
The pair reportedly visited Beghal in 2010 in Cantal, southern France,
where he was under house arrest. That year, French surveillance officers
photographed Beghal playing football with Cherif Kouachi and two other
convicted terrorists, Ahmed Laidouni, a jihadi recruiter, and Farid Melouk,
an Algerian member of the GIA terror group.
Quizzed by French intelligence agents at the time, Boumeddiene told them that she and Coulbaly had gone there to practice “crossbow shooting”
According to @CNN, the French policewoman shot dead yesterday was in the vicinity of the intended target of attack: a Jewish primary school.
Telegraph @14.54 Paris police fear more attacks on Jewish neighourhoods and have ordered shop closures, according to AP
BREAKING: Police order all shops closed in famed Jewish neighborhood in central Paris far from attacks.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2015
The mayor's office in Paris announced the closures Friday of shops along the Rosiers street in Paris' Marais neighborhood, in the heart of the tourist district and about a kilometer away from the offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo where 12 people were killed on Wednesday.
Hours before the Jewish Sabbath, the street is usually especially rowded with shoppers - French Jews and tourists alike.
The Vincennes region of eastern Paris in which the second, grocery hostage situation is taking place has a large Jewish population.
There has also been speculation that the attack in which a policewoman was killed yesterday in Montrouge was an aborted attempt to attack a Jewish school there.
Very interesting statement from Archbishop of Canterbury:
Telegraph @ 15.19 Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has spoken out against the Charlie Hebdo attack:
Quote I think it is a challenge to all of us to maintain the values on which we have lived over the years, which we have developed out of years of censorship and oppression and religious violence, and to say that the way we live, with the confidence that enables us to satirise, to mock, is a good and important value in our society.
It doesn't mean that we will always agree with the satirising, but we have to be confident that our values are good values in this.
They enable oppression and cruelty to be challenged, whether it is coming from the Church or anywhere else and we must not be afraid.
This is a moment for courage.
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15.09 Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has ordered Mossad to provide French officials for all the assistance they need in tackling the ongoing terror situation in and around Paris:
Algerian secret services warned France on Jan 6 of imminent terrorist attack, the day before the attack on #CharlieHebdo, says @itele
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France royally fucked up with these guys. Reports suggest authorities had eyeballs on all of the involved, at least one w/terror related priors...yet they were free to draw innocent blood and continue to do so today at the behest of state mandated 'tolerance' at any cost.
Lots of shots heard and smoke coming from warehouse on live video...Telegraph
15.57 Four or five explosions, followed by puffs of smoke, at the Dammartin seige situation
15.55 We are getting reports of heavy gunfire and explosions in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the seige involving Said and Cheif Kouachi and one hostage has been ongoing for most of today.
video clip of assault on terrorist at warehouse via Telegraph
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.
All of today's hostage takers are dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFwedk4dBCc
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