New hostage situation reported in Paris grocery
Source: RTE
The man suspected of killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris yesterday is reported to have taken a hostage at a kosher grocery in eastern Paris.
Police say one person has been injured in a shootout at the store.
The suspect was a member of the same jihadist group as the two suspects in the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a police source said.
The man knew Cherif and Said Kouachi, the brothers suspected of killing ten journalists and two police officers on Wednesday.
Read more: http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0109/671383-paris-policewoman/
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/553528256084062209
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/553528788383191040
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I don't do twitter and have no idea if anyone has been hurt (yet).
barbtries
(28,810 posts)i've had it on all morning getting ready for work. they're saying that a hostage has been taken and 1 person is wounded. they're speculating that it's the same person who killed the policewoman in paris.
i guess they win, if their end game is terror.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,347 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)ellenrr
(3,864 posts)which doesn't sound like a copycat.
Sounds like a coordinated attack.
A group could shut down a whole country with enough strategic coordinated attacks, esp. if the group members do not care if they die or get caught. easily.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)But it seems to me this is another one with the same motivations and desires doing something similar.
I don't think there is evidence of communication from a higher group leader or coherent structure.
At this time.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)ellenrr
(3,864 posts)Bosonic
(3,746 posts)https://twitter.com/AFP/status/553535441828605953
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)PARIS (AP) -- France's anti-terrorism prosecutor says a shooting and hostage-taking attack is underway at a kosher market on the eastern edge of Paris. A police official said there are multiple hostages and wounded at the scene.
The French president ordered the country's top security official to the scene, an official in the presidency told The Associated Press. The police official declined to be named when discussing the unfolding situation.
The events near Paris' Porte de Vincennes took place as two suspects in France's deadliest terror attack in decades were cornered near Charles de Gaulle airport.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_MARKET_ATTACK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)https://twitter.com/AFP/status/553541676229472256
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)"AFP is reporting that, according to a source close to the inquiry, at least two people are dead in the hostage situation in Paris. The BBC is unable to immediately confirm this."
Link to good live updates at BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-30722098
This was just posted
"French police have put out an appeal for witnesses to yesterday's shooting in Montrouge. They are looking for two people: a woman called Hayat Boumeddiene and a man called Amedy Coulibaly."
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)5...4...3...2...1...
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)BBC
Bruno Boelpaep
BBC News, Porte Vincennes
Police officer: 'Two dead'
Posted at 14:00
reports that a police officer at the scene in Paris says two people are confirmed dead after a gunman (believed to be the killer of the police officer in Montrouge yesterday) entered a kosher supermarket in the Porte de Vincennes area of eastern Paris.
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-30722098
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)PARIS (AP) -- A police official says the man who has taken at least five people hostage in a kosher market on the eastern edges of Paris Friday appears linked to the newsroom massacre earlier this week that left 12 people dead.
The official, who was not authorized to speak about the situation, said the man opened fire in the kosher market, near Paris' Porte de Vincennes, and declared "you know who I am."
Paris police released a photo of Amedy Coulibaly as a suspect in the killing Thursday of a policewoman, and the official named him as the man holed up in the market. He said the man is armed with an automatic rifle and some hostages have been gravely wounded.
He said a second suspect, a woman named Hayet Boumddiene, is the gunman's accomplice.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_MARKET_ATTACK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)brooklynite
(94,679 posts)Amedy Coulibaly is 33 and from Juvisy-sur-Orge in Ile-de-France. According to Le Monde, Coulibaly and Cherif Kouachi were two of the most committed followers of convicted terrorist Djamel Beghal . Telephone conversations reveal that the pair visited Beghals home in Murat in the south of France. Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, has been Coulibalys partner since 2010 and lived in his home while he was serving a prison sentence, Le Monde said.
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,347 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)than the Boston Marathon bombings. Other suspects involved.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Looks like some civilians survived whatever happened in the grocery store.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,347 posts)BREAKING Several hostages freed at Jewish supermarket in Paris: AFP
#BREAKING Paris supermarket hostage-taker 'neutralised': security source
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)I'm not sure, but I think the 1 or 2 holed up in the printing building are the last of them.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,347 posts)The police put out her name and photo earlier today (reply #14). It's not sure if she's ever done any violence, though.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,347 posts)according to BBC - unsure whether that's the gunman or a hostage.
question everything
(47,518 posts)But four hostages were killed and five injured at the supermarket, although it was not immediately clear how many of those may have been shot in the final assault. Five hostages were reported to have been freed unharmed, a senior French police official said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting.html