i don't know about the end of this thing but the rest of it looks like police incompetence right from the start. others with expertise should give their assessment but here is my Layman's view.
in a city already under high alert for terrorism, the first responders to a report of multiple gunmen firing semi auto rifles are 3 unarmed policemen on bicycles. More unarmed police arrive and one is killed.
the terrorists get away and the paris police are unable to track them, even after they crash their car and hijack another.
outside paris they are observed in a wooded area but the thousands of police chasing them are unable to establish a perimeter and they escape to take hostages in a printing plant. Brilliant!
meanwhile, paris is supposedly under the "highest state of alert" with thousands of additional police, military etc deployed. no matter, the next morning an unarmed police woman is killed by another jihadist. even on the "highest alert" police are again unable to track the killer or establish a perimeter and he escapes as well, only to resurface by killing 2 more people at a jewish shop. he takes additional hostages, at least 4 are killed in the rescue.
we don't know about the hostage rescue itself, but for the rest of it, inspector clouseau would be an improvement.
yup, the hostage assault was a clusterf*ck just like the rest of it.
there wasn’tt a proper perimeter during the kosher deli assault, and the hostage taker’s girlfriend escaped.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903042/Charlie-Hebdo-assassins-shot-dead-Paris-hostage-taker-commandos-kill-three-terrorists.html
I agree as I was speaking about the hostage event specifically. They did a terrible job otherwise. Not profiling when it was appropriate. Now they need to bring in at least 10,000 troops and go house to house in the neighborhood where these creatures came from and treat it like a war zone with search and destroy as appropriate.