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Fri Jan 9, 2015 01:37 PM
Last update on: Sun Mar 8, 2015 01:53 AM

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French forces kill newspaper attack suspects

French forces kill newspaper attack suspects

Fri Jan 9, 2015 01:37 PM
Last update on: Sun Mar 8, 2015 01:53 AM
4 hostages die in second siege
Reuters, DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France
Fri Jan 9, 2015 01:37 PM Last update on: Sun Mar 8, 2015 01:53 AM
Five dead, including gunman, in Paris supermarket hostage drama. Photo: AFP
Five dead, including gunman, in Paris supermarket hostage drama. Photo: AFP

Two brothers suspected of attacking the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed when police stormed their hideout on Friday while their hostage was freed, a police official said.

However, a police source said at least four other hostages had been killed at a separate siege at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris.

Several hostages freed at Jewish supermarket in Paris. Photo: AFP/ Thomas Samson
Several hostages freed at Jewish supermarket in Paris. Photo: AFP/ Thomas Samson

The two brothers died when security forces moved in on a print works in the small town of Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where the chief suspects in Wednesday's attack had been holed up with their hostage.

A police source said the hostage-taker at the Jewish supermarket, who is believed to have had links to the same Islamist group as the brothers, had also been killed.

A police investigator inspects the scene after an attack at a kebab restaurant near el Houda mosque in Villefrance-Sur-Saone near Lyon January 8, 2015 the day after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo. Photo: Reuters

 
A police investigator inspects the scene after an attack at a kebab restaurant near el Houda mosque in Villefrance-Sur-Saone near Lyon January 8, 2015 the day after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo. Photo: Reuters

The print works at Dammartin-en-Goele, set in marsh and woodland, had been under siege since the gunmen abandoned a high-speed car chase and took refuge there early on Friday.

Charlie Hebdo had long courted controversy with satirical attacks on Islam as well as other religions and political leaders. A witness said one of the gunmen in Wednesday's attack was heard to shout: "We have killed Charlie Hebdo! We have avenged the Prophet!"

The gunmen killed 12 people in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo weekly, which raised questions about surveillance of radicals, far-right politics, religion and censorship in a land struggling to integrate part of its five-million Muslim population, the EU's largest.

Security sources said the French-born brothers of Algerian origin had been under surveillance and had been placed on European and US "no-fly" lists.

 

Roads into the town have been sealed off by police. Photo: AFP
Roads into the town have been sealed off by police. Photo: AFP
A woman holds a sign reading 'Yo soy Charlie' (I am Charlie) in support of the victims of the terrorist attack at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, on January 8, 2015 in front of the Duarte park in Santo Domingo City. Photo: AFP
A woman holds a sign reading 'Yo soy Charlie' (I am Charlie) in support of the victims of the terrorist attack at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, on January 8, 2015 in front of the Duarte park in Santo Domingo City. Photo: AFP
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French forces kill newspaper attack suspects

French forces kill newspaper attack suspects

Fri Jan 9, 2015 01:37 PM
Last update on: Sun Mar 8, 2015 01:53 AM
4 hostages die in second siege
Reuters, DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France
Fri Jan 9, 2015 01:37 PM Last update on: Sun Mar 8, 2015 01:53 AM
Five dead, including gunman, in Paris supermarket hostage drama. Photo: AFP
Five dead, including gunman, in Paris supermarket hostage drama. Photo: AFP

Two brothers suspected of attacking the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed when police stormed their hideout on Friday while their hostage was freed, a police official said.

However, a police source said at least four other hostages had been killed at a separate siege at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris.

Several hostages freed at Jewish supermarket in Paris. Photo: AFP/ Thomas Samson
Several hostages freed at Jewish supermarket in Paris. Photo: AFP/ Thomas Samson

The two brothers died when security forces moved in on a print works in the small town of Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where the chief suspects in Wednesday's attack had been holed up with their hostage.

A police source said the hostage-taker at the Jewish supermarket, who is believed to have had links to the same Islamist group as the brothers, had also been killed.

A police investigator inspects the scene after an attack at a kebab restaurant near el Houda mosque in Villefrance-Sur-Saone near Lyon January 8, 2015 the day after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo. Photo: Reuters

 
A police investigator inspects the scene after an attack at a kebab restaurant near el Houda mosque in Villefrance-Sur-Saone near Lyon January 8, 2015 the day after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo. Photo: Reuters

The print works at Dammartin-en-Goele, set in marsh and woodland, had been under siege since the gunmen abandoned a high-speed car chase and took refuge there early on Friday.

Charlie Hebdo had long courted controversy with satirical attacks on Islam as well as other religions and political leaders. A witness said one of the gunmen in Wednesday's attack was heard to shout: "We have killed Charlie Hebdo! We have avenged the Prophet!"

The gunmen killed 12 people in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo weekly, which raised questions about surveillance of radicals, far-right politics, religion and censorship in a land struggling to integrate part of its five-million Muslim population, the EU's largest.

Security sources said the French-born brothers of Algerian origin had been under surveillance and had been placed on European and US "no-fly" lists.

 

Roads into the town have been sealed off by police. Photo: AFP
Roads into the town have been sealed off by police. Photo: AFP
A woman holds a sign reading 'Yo soy Charlie' (I am Charlie) in support of the victims of the terrorist attack at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, on January 8, 2015 in front of the Duarte park in Santo Domingo City. Photo: AFP
A woman holds a sign reading 'Yo soy Charlie' (I am Charlie) in support of the victims of the terrorist attack at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, on January 8, 2015 in front of the Duarte park in Santo Domingo City. Photo: AFP
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