Friday, January 9, 2015

Another Paris Siege! Gunman takes six hostages including woman and four children in kosher grocery

French police have named the hostage taker as Amedy Coulibaly, 32, while also claimed a woman named Hayat Boumeddiene (left), 26, is involvedAnother Paris Siege! Gunman takes six hostages including woman and four children in kosher grocery . Two people have been killed in a Kosher store in eastern Paris where a ‘heavily armed’ Islamic terrorist is currently holding as many as six hostages, police believe. Paris force say the suspected murderer is Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who is wearing body armour and brandishing two Kalashnikov automatic weapons.
He is working with a woman called Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, who is considered ‘armed and dangerous’, and is said to have yelled at police: 'You know who I am' when they responded to the shooting. Police have now ordered all shops in Paris' famed Jewish district to be immediately closed, while the gunman is said to be demanding the Kouachi brothers - currently engaged in a tense deadlock with police further north - are immediately freed. There are also unconfirmed reports that there is a serious incident developing near the Trocadero in central Paris. The siege at the grocery store occurred after the Charlie Hebdo killers in Dammartin-en-Goele – currently holed up with a hostage at a business premises – were believed to have made contact with an associate. Police immediately scrambled phone signals in the area – but not before the killers were able to make their call. It is now feared that Said Kouachi and his brother Cheriff contacted Amedy Coulibaly – and possibly ordered him to take hostages in a bid to force police to allow them to escape. It is not known whether Boumeddiene was in the Kosher store with Coulibaly. It means that two sieges by suspected Islamic terrorists are playing out at the same time, as fears grew that they would be looking to cause another bloodbath.The pair are aggressively wrestled to the ground by police officers tasked with preventing anyone coming and going from the scenePolice officers stop two people on a scooter at gunpoint as they arrive near the scene of the hostage taking

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