Two hostage situations in and around Paris came to an end Friday after police stormed the two sites, killing all gunmen.
In the east of the city, near Porte de Vincennes, a gunman who took at least five people hostage at a kosher supermarket was killed in the police raid. A police source told Reuters that at least four hostages have been killed, but this has yet to be officially confirmed. The gunman was believed to be responsible for the killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris on Thursday.
North of the capital in Dammartin-en-Goele, French anti-terrorist police raided the site where the two men believed to have carried Wednesday's attack on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper took at least one person hostage. Both gunmen were killed and the hostage was freed.
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Live updates:
7:14 P.M. Four people critically wounded after Paris kosher grocery siege, AFP reports security official as saying
6:56 P.M. Official: 2 suspects in French standoff came out shooting
A security official says the two brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo massacre came out firing, prompting the assault on the building where they had holed up with a hostage. The official was not authorized to speak about the sensitive operations and spoke on condition of anonymity. Officials say the brothers died in the assault.
Another official, police union representative Christophe Crepin, said it appeared that the gunman who took hostages at a kosher market had also died in a nearly simultaneous raid there. Crepin spoke to LCI televison. (AP)
6:54 P.M. At least 4 hostages at Paris kosher grocery dead says police source - Reuters
6:46 P.M. One hostage freed at site north of Paris where Charlie Hebdo suspects, now dead, were holed up (AP)
6:29 P.M. Hostage taker at kosher grocery siege in eastern Paris dead - Le Monde
6:25 P.M. Both Charlie Hebdo suspects killed in police raid
6:24 P.M. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Friday, and offered any Israeli assistance that French authorities might need. Netanyahu also raised the issue of security at Jewish institutions in France. The prime minister noted that it iscrucial to strike at the sources of financing of Islamist radicals and
to fight incitement in Europe that encourages such terror.
Netanyahu is expected to speak with French President Francois Hollande in the near future as well.
Netanyahu earlier Friday spoke with French Jewish community leaders, including Roger Cukierman, the president of CRIF, the umbrella representative body of Jewish organizations in France, and Meyer Habib, a French lawmaker. He asked them to tell the Jewish community in France that Israel is supporting them at this difficult time. (Barak Ravid)
6:13 P.M. Four explosions heard at site of hostage-taking where Charlie Hebdo suspects are holed up - Reuters reporter
6:00 P.M. France 24 reports that French special forces storm building in Dammartin-en-Goele where Charlie Hebdo suspects are holed up
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— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) January 9, 2015 5:56 P.M. Gunshots, several explosions heard at Dammartin-en-Goele site in France - Reuters reporter (Reuters)
5:51 P.M. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Friday sent a letter to his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, expressing condolences to France over the terrorist attacks that have unfolded in and near Paris since Wednesday. "We stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of France," Ya'alon wrote, adding that Israel is prepared to offer any necessary assistance.
5:40 P.M. Paris gunman threatening to kill Jewish grocery hostages if Hebdo suspects are harmed, according to AP
5:20 P.M. Hezbollah chief: Extremists harm Islam more than cartoons
The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group says Islamic extremists have insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad more than those who published satirical cartoons mocking the religion.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah did not directly mention the Paris attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead, but he said Islamic extremists who behead and slaughter people — a reference to the IS group's rampages in Iraq and Syria — have done more harm to Islam than anyone else in history.
Nasrallah spoke Friday via video link to supporters gathered in southern Beirut. (AP)
5:07 P.M. An Israeli SWAT team unit specializing in hostage situation takeovers and rescues has been on standby since early Friday and ready to travel to Paris to assist French authorities with the hostage situation at a kosher grocery store.
The commander of the police's elite counter-terror unit (Yamam), Brig.-Gen. S., has been in contact with his French counterparts and offered them Israeli assistance in handling the hostage situation, particularly at the Jewish-owned grocery. Israeli counter-terror officials praised the French authorities' response to the attacks.
Israel's counter-terrorism unit maintains close ties, shares intelligence and conducts joint drills with Western European counter-terror units, especially that in Germany (Amir Oren)
4:40 P.M. Jewish institutions are not cancelling any Shabbat services, including in the area of kosher grocery, according to head of Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions. (Shirli Sitbon)
4:20 P.M. French police order all shops closed in Jewish neighborhood in central Paris (AP)
4:10 P.M. Netanyahu holds conference call with top Israeli security, diplomatic officials
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday held a conference call about the unfolding situation at a kosher grocery in Paris with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Foreign Ministry Director-General Nissim Ben Sheetrit, Mossad head Tamir Pardo, National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen and Eitan Ben David, chief of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau.
Netanyahu was briefed about the ongoing contact between authorities in
Israel and those in France.
He also instructed the officials to provide all assistance to authorities in France, and to reissue security directives at Israeli embassies and Jewish institutions.
4:06 P.M. Lieberman: Paris attack is additional attempt by dark forces of radical Islam to sow terror, fear in West.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel is following events in Paris with great concern and that the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem is in contact with Israeli embassy staffers in France.
Lieberman said that the terrorist attack that has been ongoing for three days, since the deadly attack at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris on Wednesday, is not just an attack against the people of France. It is also not simply an attack against the Jews of France but against the entire free world.
This is an additional attempt by the dark forces of radical Islam to sow terror and fear in the West, Lieberman said. He added that the entire international community must be united and determined to fight such terror. (Barak Ravid)
4:04 P.M. French interior ministry denies reports that two killed at kosher grocery
One person was 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. Police sources said one person was injured after being shot.
3:44 P.M. The hostage-taker at the Paris-area kosher grocery is the main suspect in Thursday's shooting that left one policewoman dead, police sources confirm to France24.
3:42 P.M. Iran President Hassan Rohani tweets: "We condemn violence, extremism & terrorism everywhere: whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq or in Paris or in the United States. #WAVE"
3:35 P.M. French police release mugshots of two suspects linked to Thursday's shooting that left one policewoman dead. The two suspects are believed to be involved in the hostage situation at the Paris-area kosher grocery.
3:33 P.M. French President Francois Hollande orders the country's top security official to the kosher grocery, an official in the presidency tells The Associated Press.
3:31 P.M. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweets: "My message, in Paris, in Jerusalem, anywhere: first rule in fighting terrorism is to refuse to be afraid."
3:20 P.M. At least two killed in hostage drama in Paris-area kosher grocery, according to AFP.
3:12 P.M. The man who has taken at least five hostages in a Paris kosher grocery shop is armed with two machine guns, French media report.
Women and children are among the hostages, according to the BFMTV broadcaster. (DPA)
3:03 P.M. At least five hostages have been taken at the Paris-area kosher grocery, according to AFP.
2:50 P.M. The gunman is believed to be a man police had been searching for in connection with a shooting in the French capital on Thursday, which left one policewoman dead.
2:36 P.M. At least one injured at shooting near kosher grocery. (Haaretz)
2:27 P.M. Armed man takes hostage in kosher grocery east of Paris, according to AFP.
2:27 P.M. Reports of shots in Porte de Vincennes, east of Paris. (Haaretz)
2:08 P.M. French interior minister: Priority of authorities is to establish dialogue with suspects. (Reuters)
1:53 P.M. The Charlie Hebdo attack and Thursday's shooting near Paris that left one police officer dead are "directly linked," police sources tell France24.
The man suspected of killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris on Thursday before fleeing the scene was a member of the same jihadist group as the two suspects in the attack at weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a police source told Reuters.
The assailant believed to be behind the shooting in the Montrouge area knew Cherif and Said Kouachi, the brothers suspected of killing 10 journalists and two police officers in Wednesday's assault, the source said on Friday.
The man, wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying an assault rifle and a handgun, fled in a Renault Clio from the scene after the attack and is still on the run.
Two people have been arrested in an investigation by anti-terrorist authorities, the source said. The three men were all members of the same Paris jihadist cell that a decade ago sent young French volunteers to Iraq to fight U.S. forces. (Reuters)
1:50 P.M. Phone contact established with suspects, who 'want to die as martyrs'
An official in the French town where two terror suspects are holed up with a hostage near a school tells The Associated Press that phone contact has been established with the men. A lawmaker inside the command post tells French television the men "want to die as martyrs."
Audrey Taupenas, spokeswoman for Dammartin-en-Goele, says officials established phone contact with the suspects in order to negotiate the safe evacuation of a school near the printing plant where the men are cornered. She says the suspects agreed.
Yves Albarello, a lawmaker who said he was inside the command post, said the two brothers told i-Tele on Friday they "want to die as martyrs." (AP)
1:18 P.M. ISIS cleric says group responsible for Charlie Hebdo attack
A cleric from the Islamic State group claims the radical militia was responsible for the deadly attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
"We started with the France operation for which we take responsibility. Tomorrow will be in Britain, America and others," Abu Saad al-Ansari said in a sermon in the Islamic State-controlled Iraqi city of Mosul.
"This is a message to all countries participating in the [U.S.-led] coalition that has killed Islamic State members." (DPA)
12:40 P.M. Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten will not republish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered Muslims by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad 10 years ago, will not republish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons due to security concerns, the only major Danish newspaper not to do so.
"It shows that violence works," the newspaper stated in its editorial on Friday.
Denmark's other major newspapers have all republished cartoons from the French satirical weekly as part of the coverage of the attack which killed 12 people in Paris on Wednesday.
Many other European newspapers also republished Charlie Hebdo cartoons to protest against the killings.
When Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons by various artists in September 2005, most of which depict the Prophet Mohammad, it sparked a wave of protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 people died.
"We have lived with the fear of a terrorist attack for nine years, and yes, that is the explanation why we do not reprint the cartoons, whether it be our own or Charlie Hebdo's," Jyllands-Posten said. "We are also aware that we therefore bow to violence and intimidation."
Jyllands-Posten decided to tighten its security level in the wake of the Paris attack.
"The concern for our employees' safety is paramount," it said in Friday's editorial. (Reuters)
12:28 P.M. The pair remains holed up inside CTF Creation Tendance Decouverte. Xavier Castaing, the chief Paris police spokesman, and town hall spokeswoman Audrey Taupenas, said there appeared to be one hostage inside the printing house.
Christelle Alleume, who works across the street, said that a round of gunfire interrupted her coffee break Friday morning.
"We heard shots and we returned very fast because everyone was afraid," she told i-Tele. "We had orders to turn off the lights and not approach the windows." (AP)
12:06 P.M. An airport spokesman said the flight diversions are not affecting schedules.
At least three helicopters are hovering above the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, near to the airport. (AP)
11:45 A.M. French interior minister: "Almost certain" that hostage-takers are the two Charlie Hebdo suspects. (Reuters)
11:41 A.M. The two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack are holding one hostage, police sources tell AFP. (Haaretz)
11:30 A.M. Two runways at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport have been closed as a precautionary measure in light of developments in Dammartin-en-Goele. (Haaretz)
11:20 A.M. Paris prosecutor's office denies report that one person killed in shootout in Dammartin-en-Goele. (Reuters)
11:11 A.M. Said Kouachi visited Yemen in 2011 for religious studies, according to a senior Yemeni intelligence source.
While in Yemen, he met with late Al-Qaida preacher Anwar Al Alwaqi. (Reuters)
11:10 A.M. Negotiations have started with the two suspects, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.
11:04 A.M. One person killed, several injured in shootout ahead of hostage taking in Dammartin-En-Goele, according to French media. (Reuters)
10:48 A.M. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve separately confirms a police operation was underway in Dammartin-en-Goele, some 40 km (25 miles) from the site of where police had been hunting the two suspects on Thursday.
10:42 A.M.The two suspects stole a Peugeot on Friday morning in the town of Montagny Sainte Felicite, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Paris, police official says.
10:35 A.M. Hostages have been taken northeast of Paris, according to AFP.
10:27 A.M. Shots fired in car chase northeast of Paris
Gunshots rang out on Friday in the French town of Dammartin-en- Goele, some 40 km (25 miles) from the scene of where police had been hunting two suspects in the killings of 12 people at a satirical weekly, a police source said.
The source added that police were now chasing a vehicle on the nearby A2 motorway. (Reuters)
9:40 A.M. ISIS praises Charlie Hebdo attackers as "heroic jihadists"
The Islamic State militant group praised the gunmen behind this week's killings at the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper as "heroic jihadists", a monitoring group said on Friday.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors radical Islamist organisations in the media, said Islamic State praised the gunmen in a brief note in its daily audio bulletin, which was distributed on Twitter and jihadi forums on Thursday.
"We start our bulletin with France. Heroic jihadists killed 12 journalists and wounded ten others working in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and that was support for our master (Prophet) Mohammad, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him," according to the audio bulletin. (Reuters)
1:47 A.M. Obama visits French embassy to pay respects
President Barack Obama made an unannounced visit to the French Embassy in Washington on Thursday to pay his respects and express solidarity with the French people.
Obama wrote in a condolences book that he extended U.S. sympathy and solidarity to the French people. "As allies across the centuries, we stand united with our French brothers to ensure that justice is done and our way of life is defended. We go forward together knowing that terror is no match for freedom and ideals we stand for - ideals that light the world," he wrote. (Reuters)
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100:57 A.M. Charlie Hebdo to print 1 million copies next week
Charlie Hebdo will publish its next edition on Wednesday, a lawyer for the French satirical magazine told the AFP news agency, despite the deadly shooting at its Paris headquarters.
One million copies will be printed, lawyer Richard Malka said, far above the magazine's usual circulation that numbers in the tens of thousands. Read full article here
12:56 A.M. Manhunt to continue overnight with five helicopters, French police says
Le Monde reported that police has given no new information on the manhunt for the suspects around the village of Longpont, northern France. The search will continue with the aid of five helicopters overnight, a police officer said according to AFP.
00:17 A.M. Brothers were on U.S. no-fly list for years, unnamed sources say
Cherif and Said Kouachi, brothers suspected of the Paris attack, had been on a U.S. no-fly list for years, and were on a database of terrorists called TIDE, unnamed U.S. officials are cited as saying by U.S. media.
12:13 A.M. American official: Said Kouachi trained with Al-Qaida in Yemen
An unnamed American official told CNN the U.S. has received information from the French intelligence service that Said Kouachi traveled to Yemen in 2011, where he trained with Al-Qaida militants. According to the official, the training included firearm usage, and possibly bomb making as well. In addition, a French intelligence source told CNN the possibility is examined that one of the brothers – it's unclear which – visited Syria last year.
12:05 A.M. Canada's Harper: Jihadists have declared war, world must respond
The deadly attacks in Paris serve as a vivid reminder that jihadists are at war with those they disagree with, and the world must confront them, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday.
"The international jihadist movement has declared war. They have declared war on anybody who does not think and act exactly as they wish they'd think and act," Harper told reporters when asked about Wednesday's attack.
"We may not like this and wish it would go away, but it's not going to go away, and the reality is we are going to have to confront it."
Harper spoke as a manhunt was underway in France for two brothers suspected of being the Islamist gunmen who killed 12 people in Wednesday's attack on a satirical weekly newspaper in Paris.
Harper said any doubts in Canada about the reality of threats posed by such extremists should have vanished on Oct. 22. That was the day when a radicalized Canadian gunman killed a soldier at the national war memorial and then stormed the Parliament building. (Reuters)
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