cairnsd just now People being hurried away from the supermarket. (Sky)
Posted on 01/09/2015 12:57:43 AM PST by radu
The two men suspected of attacking a newspaper in Paris have stolen a car and reportedly have several hostages.
A car chase is under way on the N2 motorway, and police sources say shots have been fired.
The car is now on the outskirts of Paris - close to Charles de Gaulle airport - and several helicopters are reportedly hovering overhead.
Sky's Ian Woods says the police focus now appears to have turned to an industrial building near to the airport.
Two people with gunshot wounds have been taken to hospital in Meaux.
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cairnsd just now People being hurried away from the supermarket. (Sky)
They should be ground up WITH pigs and turned into dog food.
I bet terrorism might decline if those F-ers knew that would be their fate.
I love it! YES!!!
my sincerest compliments
From a French reporter..
“You have to understand we are in a war situation..we have to say it like it is..”
Telegraph:
Latest
14.59 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 crowded 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.
Independent:
a minute ago
The Spokesperson’s Office of the European Commission and the Elysee has said that the meeting scheduled for Sunday in Strasbourg between Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel has been postponed indefinitely “due to the events” in France
Guardian:
More on the new suspected member of the terror cell from Angelique Chrisafis.
Amedy Coulibaly
Amédy Coulibaly, is 32 and from Juvisy-sur-Orge in Essonne outside Paris. He is believed to be the gunman currently holding hostages in a kosher grocery shop at Porte de Vincennes, on the eastern edge of Paris. He is also suspected of killing a French policewoman in a shoot-out in the south of Paris on Thursday morning, less than 24 hours after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
While still a teenager he became involved in criminality and reportedly notched up several convictions for armed robbery from 2001 when he was still a minor. The newsweekly, L’Obs reported that he had met Cherif Kouachi, one of the brothers suspected of the Charlie Hebdo attack, between 2005 and 2006 when they were both inside the notorious Fleury-Mérogis prison, south of Paris, a huge prison known for its overcrowding.
French media reported that Coulibaly had converted and become radicalised in prison.
After an initial spell in prison for armed robbery, he was reported to have then started drug-dealing and served another sentence. After that, with training as a television-fitter, he settled in Grigny in the Essonne, around 20km south-east of Paris.
He was arrested by anti-terrorist police in 2010 suspected of having taken part in a plot to aid the prison escape of Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem, one of the key figures behind Paris metro and train attacks in 1995.
During searches of his home, police found Kalashnikov ammunition. He received a prison sentence and is reported to have been released from prison just over a year ago.
Le Monde reported that he and Kouachi had both shared a mentor in a radical figure, Djamel Beghal, who had been convicted for a planned terrorist attack on Paris. Police are also now searching for Coulibaly’s partner, Hayat Boumedienne, who he lived with.
Hayat Boumeddiene
Hayat Boumedienne is 26. Police released a photo of Boumedienne after the kosher grocery hold-up at Porte de Vincennes early on Friday afternoon. The live-in partner of Coulibaly, Le Monde reported that she had been in a relationship with him since 2010 and had met him outside prison last spring when he was released following a four-year sentence. Coulibaly had been living with Boumedienne at her home since he left prison. Boumedienne had been interviewed by anti-terrorist police in 2010. Le Monde reported that she had told police that during a visit to the radical Islamist Djamel Beghal in Murat, in the Cantal countryside in central France, where they had practised firing crossbows.
Prayers for France ... Prayers for Great Britain ... Prayers for U.S.
AFP:
14:05 GMT - Witness escape - Some witnesses to the shootings at the kosher grocery targeted by a hostage-taker in Paris’s Porte de Vincennes have managed to escape, a source close to the investigations tells AFP.
The hostage-taker burst into the mini-supermarket at around 13:00pm local time armed with two machine guns. He opened fire, the source adds, killing “at least two” and taking “at least five people hostage”.
14:05 GMT - Coulibaly - The man holding hostages in Vincennes knew at least one of the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a source tells AFP.
Amedy Coulibaly, 32, was seen with Charlie Hebdo suspect Cherif Kouachi in 2010 during an investigation into an attempted prison break in France. Coulibaly was convicted for his role and was well-known to anti-terrorist police.
14:05 GMT - PARIS HOSTAGE-TAKER ‘KNEW’ CHARLIE HEBDO KILLER: SOURCE
Sky:
Jamie Grierson@HomeAffairsPA
It is now understood Kouachi brothers were on British watch and no-fly list to stop them entering UK or passing through British airport.
8:58 AM - 9 Jan 2015
Telegraph:
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:
BREAKING: PM Netanyahu orders Israeli MFA & Mossad to give French government all the assistance needed in fighting terror wave in Paris
Reuters:
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@HuffPostUK
Six month-old baby reportedly among Paris kosher supermarket hostages http://t.co/nJv3pPNUoLhttp://t.co/yLoVDd7Uc4
Amen.
Guardian:
The hostage situation at the kosher supermarket in Paris was being followed closely by Israel’s government which has offered assistance to the French government, writes Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a conference call with senior security and diplomatic officials to be briefed on the unfolding situation although it is understood no Israeli citizens are among the hostages.
Ordering the tightening of security at Israel’s diplomatic missions and associated offices, earlier in the day Netanyahu – who has compared events in France to the threat he says Israelis are facing – issued a statement saying: “My message, in Paris, in Jerusalem, anywhere: first rule in fighting terrorism is to refuse to be afraid.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Jerusalem was following the developments in Paris with great concern.
The Paris attacks “are not just against the French people or French Jews, they’re against the entire free world,” Lieberman said in a statement.
“This is another attempt by the dark forces of radical Islam to unleash horror and terror on the West. The entire international community must stand strong and determined in the face of this terror,” Lieberman added.
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.
15.16 The police have just lifted the roadblock on the road that runs through the forest where the Kouachi brothers were thought to have been hiding out overnight and then hijacked a car.
Yahoo:
a few seconds ago
LATEST:
The kosher grocery store gunman in Paris has threatened to kill hostages if police move in on the terrorist brothers in Dammartin-En-Goele
Telegraph:
15.23 Harriet Alexander is in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the seige involving Said and Cheif Kouachi and one hostage has been ongoing for six hours.
Around 300m from the factory where Said and Cherif Kouachi are holed up, I spoke to Miloud Belall, who lives a stone’s throw from the site.
Mr Belall, a plumber, arrived home from his night shift at 10am and met the gendarmes.
“They asked me to leave - there was no negotiation, it was: ‘You will leave now,’” he said.
“But they did a thorough search of my house for journalists, because I have an excellent view across to the factory.”
He knows the site of the print works well, and said it was a modern, family-owned factory with lots of large machinery. It has mirrorised windows in the office section - meaning that the terrorists can see those that survey them, but not vice versa.
“I reckon it’ll be over soon,” said Mr Belall, hopefully. “I guess we’ll hear some explosions and then that’ll be it.”
15.21 French president Francois Hollande is holding a crisis meeting with French prefects at the Interior Ministry in Paris with Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve
REUTERS:
The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: Paris police: Market gunman threatens to kill hostages if police storm terrorist brothers.
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by cassandra.garrison 9:27 AM
Stoddard didn’t kill him, it was a rough man who knew the odds and the truth of the futility of pacifism.
Sky:
cairnsd just now
Three ambulances seen speeding towards the location of the supermarket.
Jus like the film V for Vendetta, people think it was the pacifism that won but it really was V’s actions.
Telegraph:
15.27
More reports from various sources that the French authorities had been warned about Said and Cherif Kouachi ahead of this Wednesday’s initial attack on Charlie Hebdo, including a specific tip-off from the Algerian intelligence services:
Algerian secret services warned France on Jan 6 of imminent terrorist attack, the day before the attack on #CharlieHebdo, says @itele
— Henry Samuel (@H_E_Samuel) January 9, 2015
Independent:
a few seconds ago
‘I am in the shop, I love you’ -reportedly a call received by the daughter of a woman being held hostage in the Kosher supermarket - according to Europe 1
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