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1:56PM EST: President Hollande has described the Vincennes attack as a “horrific anti-Semitic act”.
1:54PM EST: President Hollande is speaking. He has just confirmed the death of four people in the Vincennes hostage crisis.
1:51PM EST: Supermarket gunman did pre-recorded interview with French BFMTV saying he coordinated with Charlie Hebdo killers.
12:40PM EST: French Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib tells Israel’s Army Radio a hostage killed at the kosher market was a close friend of his.
12:13PM EST: Extreme confusion surrounding the status of the hostages. Reuters reports that at least four hostages dead while AFP
12:12PM EST: French President François Hollande will address the nation tonight after the end to the two hostage situations.
11:55AM EST: Reuters reports that at least four hostages at kosher supermarket siege in eastern Paris dead
11:38AM EST: Dual hostage crisis ends: #CharlieH
11:34am EST: Reports are coming out that all three gunmen are confirmed dead. Reports are growing stronger that hostages are safe. Stay with YWN as we verify.
11:32am EST: Police are escorting people from the kosher market in eastern Paris where authorities said hostages were being held, CNN’s Saskya Vandoorne reports from the scene. This comes after explosions and gunfire could be heard at the site. CNN affiliate BFMTV reports police had launched an assault on the store.
11:17AM EST: At least three explosions just now as commandos launch assault on Paris Jewish supermarket.
11:15AM EST: Sky News reports that just before the explosion special combat forces could be seen heading towards the printworks where the Kouachi brothers were holed up. It now appears that the counter terrorist police initiated an assault on the building, and ambulances are driving to the scene.
11:11AM EST: Special forces (#GIGN) have reportedly storm building in Dammartin where Charlie Hebdo suspects are holed up.
10:59am EST: Shots are ringing out the first hostage situation at Danmartin-En-Goele Print Works. Several explosions have been reported. Heavy gun fire is being reported now by the factory where the 2 terrorists from Charlie Hebro attack are being held up. This is a separate location away from the Kosher supermarket. The kosher supermarket is still under siege.
10:36am EST: The gunman holding at least five hostages in Paris market has threatened to kill them if police approach.
10:25am EST: Israeli SWAT team unit specializing in hostage situations on standby, ready to travel to Paris to assist. A French. police official told YWN that reports came earlier into dispatch that an African man was seen running with a Kalashnikov rifle outside a Kosher grocery market and fired various shots as he entered.
10:06am EST: French officials are now denying earlier reports that two people were killed in the Kosher Supermarket. Negotiators are trying to convince the terrorists to release the Jewish prisoners. The Terrorists have responded that ‘They are ready to die as Martyrs’ Stay with YWN as this story is quickly developing.
10:00am ET: French Security forces are urging the Jewish community not to convene at shuls this Shabbos due to possible attack at Jewish institutions.
09:49am ET: The following are names to daven for. They were doing Erev Shabbos grocery shopping when an armed terrorist barged in taking the store hostage: Shmuel Yitzchok Ben Sara – Zerya Bas Susan – Andra Bas Jusian – Mordechai Ben May – Ilan Assoun et Oren Assoun
09:43am ET: The Suspects names are Hayat Boumeddiene and Amedy Coulibaly (R), according to French police They are believed to be boyfriend and girlfriend, suspected of slaying policewoman and current hostage situation in the East of Paris
09:39am ET: Police order all shops closed in famed Jewish neighborhood in central Paris following attacks.
09:27am ET: French interior ministry says incident which led to evacuation of Trocadero near the Eiffel Tower in Paris was a false alarm
09:21AM ET: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu orders Israeli MFA & Mossad to give French government all the assistance needed in fighting terror wave.
9:20AM ET: The French Interior Ministry has denied reports that two people died in the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris.
9:12AM ET: A police official has told AP that the man who has taken people hostage in a kosher market in Paris appears linked to the Charlie Hebdo suspects.
09:00AM ET: Police stop two people on gunpoint near scene of hostage taking in Paris
The official, who was not authorised to speak about the situation, said the man opened fire in the market Friday and declared “you know who I am.”
Paris police released a photo of Amedy Coulibaly as a suspect in the killing of a policewoman on Thursday. The official named him as the man holed up in the market.
AP’s source said some hostages have been gravely wounded. Earlier AFP said two people had been killed. Reuters said one person was seriously injured and six hostages have been taken.
9:01AM ET: Shops near the kosher supermarket siege have been evacuated, according to a witness who remains holed up in a restaurant nearby.
8:33AM ET: France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor has confirmed that shooting and hostage-taking attack is underway at a kosher market on the eastern edge of Paris, AP reports. A police official said there are multiple hostages and wounded at the scene.
RECAP: The police operation to detain the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack is underway Friday, with the three-day manhunt focused on a town 50 kilometres from Paris. The suspects are now surrounded and have reportedly taken at least one hostage.
The suspects – brothers Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34 – are thought to have taken one hostage at a small printing shop in the town of Dammartin-en-Goële in the Seine-et-Marne region, around 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) from Paris’ main airport Charles De Gaulle.
Police have revealed a “connection” between the fatal shooting of a policewoman in Montrouge, southern Paris, on Thursday and the massacre at Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday. The assailant in the Montrouge shooting of the policewoman has also taken at least five hostages in a kosher shop in the capital.
Shots were fired earlier on Friday northeast of Paris as police chased a car believed to contain the suspects, but there were no casualties.
The two brothers are suspected of killing 12 people at the Paris-based satirical weekly – eight journalists, two police officers, a maintenance worker, and a visitor. Eleven people were also wounded – four of them seriously.
Nine people have so far been detained in the search for the brothers.
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8 Responses
how is Islamic diversity working out for the French?
Some of the hostage names for davening do not seem clear, between the Hebrew and English versions.
Andra Bas Jusian or Andri orAndrai Bas Susan (per Hebrew)?
Mordechai Ben May or Ben Maya? (per Hebrew)?
Ilan Assoun et Oren Assoun – Perhaps the full Hebrew names not known. . .
What are these people trying to do? To drag the west into a religious war? For what? what is their end game?
some one said its mordcha ben miryam
hillel,
dont worry, hashem knows who you are talking about
Its very unclear what happened.
My understanding is that there are 3 different hostage situations. 2 in different kosher stores in Paris, with 10 ppl in one, and 5 in another. As well as the hostage situation with the suspects from the Hebdo attack.
Is that correct?
Are there any updates?
The authorities should not release the remains of the barbaric terrorists. They should be cremated with pig fat and their remains flushed down the toilet.
Four dead and the international media are treating it “all over” and very little mention of the market casualties. Jewish blood is cheap.