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The kosher grocery store gunman in Paris has threatened to kill hostages if police move in on the terrorist brothers in Dammartin-En-Goele
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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