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Back at the first siege in Dammartin-en-Goele schools have been evacuated close to where the suspects still hold one hostage, Kim Willsher reports from the town.
The infant and primary school 500m from the printers on the outskirts of Dammartin-en-Goele was evacuated on Friday afternoon. Buses were sent to the secondary schools in the town to pick up the children. Deputy mayor Thierry Chevalier described it as a “precautionary measure”.
Valérie Desayeux arrived to pick up her 13-year-old son David, but was told to wait. “It never even crossed my mind that the two men would come here. My older son who lives in Paris alerted me when I was at work. I tried to call the school several times and was getting more and more worried. Someone from the school finally called back at lunchtime.”
There was a state of siege around the CTD (Création Tendance Découverte) printing works where the two gunmen were said to be holding a hostage. Police snipers were deployed on the rooftops of neighbouring buildings, and troops from elite commando units had surrounded the two-storey building, home to a family-run printing business.
The gunmen hijacked a grey Peugeot 206 car from a woman driver around 8.40am on Friday morning around 40 km further north and were approaching Charles de Gaulle airport on the road into Paris when they faced the heavy police controlling the roads in and out of th capital. There was an exchange of fire, according to police sources. The men then abandoned the vehicle and ran across a field into the print works.
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French gendarmes stand by as children are evacuted from a school in Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of Paris, where two brothers suspected of slaughtering 12 people in an Islamist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo held one person hostage as police cornered the gunmen. Photograph: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images
cairnsd just now People being hurried away from the supermarket. (Sky)