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发帖数: 29846 | 1 French Terror Suspects Dead at Both Locations, 4 Hostages Dead, Officials
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Three French terror suspects are dead at two separate hostage standoff
locations, according to the City Hall of Dammartin and the French ambassador
to the U.S.
The hostage at Dammartin -- held by two Charlie Hebdo attack suspects -- is
alive, the City Hall of Dammartin said. Some hostages were seen fleeing the
Paris supermarket, but officials later said that four hostages were killed
there.
The dramatic developments came after sustained gunfire and small explosions
erupted at both hostage situations in France, two days after a massacre at
the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
There were at least four explosions and a barrage of gunfire at the kosher
market in Paris today and then police were seen going in. People then were
seen coming out of the market, and ambulances and firetrucks drove towards
the market, loaded people in and drove away.
The two simultaneous hostage-takings in France were linked, with suspected
gunmen in each situation connected through an earlier attempt to break a
convicted terrorist out of jail, Paris' public prosecutor told ABC News.
Amedi Coulibaly, 32, a suspect in a Thursday fatal shooting of a police
officer in Paris' Monrouge area, was believed to be involved with the
hostage standoff at a kosher grocery, police said. Coulibaly was convicted
for his involvement in an attempt to help a convicted terrorist escape
custody, while Cherif Kouachi -- a suspected gunman in Wednesday's massacre
-- was released.
The man they were accused of trying to free from prison was Smain Ali
Belkacem, one of those behind the 1995 attack on the Paris transport system
that killed eight people and wounded 120, according to the Paris public
prosecutor.
Officials have identified Kouachi and his brother Said Kouachi as suspects
in the attack that killed 12 people. The suspected gunmen were holed up
earlier today in a printing company in a town northeast of Paris, taking one
male employee hostage, said Audrey Taupenas, a spokeswoman for Dammartin-en
-Goele City Hall.
A French TV channel, BFM-TV, reported that it spoke to two of the hostage
takers during the sieges in eastern and northern Paris. Cherif Kouachi
claimed he had been "commissioned" by Al Qaeda in Yemen and been trained by
the U.S. cleric, Anwar Al Awaki, according to the TV station. He also told
the station that "we are defenders of the prophet."
BFM-TV also said Coulibaly, the supermarket gunman, called the station at 3
p.m. local time and claimed he had "synchronized" his attack with the
Kouachi brothers. He told the station he belonged to ISIS.
Police have issued a wanted poster for a female suspect, identified as Hayat
Boumeddiene.
As helicopters and hundreds of security forces streamed to Dammartin --
located about 20 miles northeast of Paris -- in an effort to detain the
massacre suspects, the second hostage situation unfolded at the grocery,
sending heavily armed SWAT teams to Porte de Vincennes in Paris.
Dammartin officials posted a message online instructing residents to shelter
in place.
"If you live in the town stay in your home. Children in schools are in
lockdown," the statement reads.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve later told French TV that the
printing workshop's owner, Michel Catalano, hid when the Kouachi brothers
burst into the workshop -- and throughout the siege, while the police knew
he was in hiding, the Kouachi brothers weren't aware he was there.
PHOTO: A French police officer stands on the roof where two suspects in a
France massacre are believed to be holed up, Jan. 9 ,2015, in the village of
Dammartin-en-Goele, Northeast of Paris.
Dominque Faget/AFP/Getty Images
PHOTO: A French police officer stands on the roof where two suspects in a
France massacre are believed to be holed up, Jan. 9 ,2015, in the village of
Dammartin-en-Goele, Northeast of Paris.
About 900 people were trapped in a nearby high school earlier today. "They
say to us to stay in the high school and be calm, but we can’t because we
are really scared," teacher Marianne Genet said.
PHOTO: Armed French security forces fly over the location where two heavily
armed suspects, believed to have taken part in the Charlie Hebdo shootings,
are located in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, Jan. 9, 2015.
Thibault Camus/AP Photo
PHOTO: Armed French security forces fly over the location where two heavily
armed suspects, believed to have taken part in the Charlie Hebdo shootings,
are located in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, Jan. 9, 2015.
Two assailants went inside the offices of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday and
listed off the names of their targets before shooting them execution-style,
Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman told ABC News on Wednesday. A third man
was waiting outside the building, he said.
After the shooting, more than a thousand troops were deployed on the streets
of France as part of the country's heightened state of alert.
PHOTO: Ambulances arrive in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast Paris, as part of
an operation to seize two heavily armed suspects, Jan. 9, 2015.
Michel Spingler/AP Photo
PHOTO: Ambulances arrive in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast Paris, as part of
an operation to seize two heavily armed suspects, Jan. 9, 2015.
"France isn't done with the threats it is targeted with," French President
Francoise Hollande said during an evening TV statement. "We call on
vigilance, unity and mobilization."
"We are a free people that doesn't give in to any pressure," he added. "We
carry an ideal that is larger than us. We will defend it everywhere that
peace is threatened."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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