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Charlie Hebdo shootings manhunt: what we know so far
Paris shootings manhunt: what we know so far
(about 2 hours later)
• Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, the two Parisian brothers suspected of carrying out the shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, are on the run.
• Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, who had been on the run since the shooting at the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday which claimed 12 lives, were killed when armed special forces stormed the building where they had held a hostage since early on Friday.
• Since the attack on Wednesday, the suspected gunmen were reported to have robbed a petrol station near Villers-Cotterêts, 70 miles north-east of Paris, and driven off with assault rifles and rocket launchers in the back of their car.
• The three-day terror incident came to a dramatic end just before 4pm GMT when armed officers raided the printing works on an industrial estate near Charles de Gaulle airport. The hostage was freed, according to multiple reports citing French officials.
• At about 8.30am GMT on Friday, there were reports of shots being fired and hostages taken in Dammartin-en-Goële, 26 miles north-east of the French capital.
• Moments later, officers launched an assault on a kosher supermarket in east Paris where another gunman, named earlier by police as Amedy Coulibaly, took up to six people hostage on Friday afternoon.
• Scores of armed police officers have surrounded an industrial estate in Dammartin-en-Goële, where the suspects have holed up.
• Coulibaly was also killed when police stormed the supermarket, freeing several hostages, according to multiple reports.
• A police official at the scene has told Associated Press that one person has been taken hostage.
• The Paris siege began at around 8.30am GMT on Friday when there were reports of shots being fired and hostages taken in Dammartin-en-Goële, sparking a major operation involving Swat teams, military helicopters and armed counter-terror officers.
• The suspects took over a printworks after a shootout with armed police officers, sparking a major operation involving Swat teams and military helicopters.
• Earlier on Friday, French police linked Coulibaly to the killing of policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge on Thursday. They named him as a suspect along with Hayat Boumeddienne, 26.
• Police are said to have opened hostage negotiations with the suspects as armed officers seal off the town. A local MP told French media that the two suspects declared to police negotiators that they wanted to die as martyrs.
• The siege is taking place close to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, which has restricted flights to its southern runways, further away from the standoff.
• An interior ministry spokesman confirmed to France Info radio that there was an exchange of fire with gendarmes who were manning a roadblock on the N2 motorway as the brothers approached Paris. No one was injured in the gunfight. The brothers then drove into the village’s industrial estate.
• The Paris prosecutor’s office has denied reports that one person has been killed in a shootout.
• Three primary schools and one high school in the area are on lockdown. Police have warned residents in the area to stay indoors.
• Several people have been taken hostage in a second siege at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris after shots were fired.
• Police officers are in a standoff with the gunman near the Porte de Vincennes and roads near the supermarket were sealed off after the alarm was raised at around 12pm GMT. Reports in the French media say the gunman is the same man suspected of killing policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge, south of Paris, on Thursday. He is reportedly holding five hostages.
• French police have issued an appeal for two suspects linked to the killing of Jean-Philippe. It named them as Hayat Boumeddienne, 26, and Amedy Coulibaly, 32. Coulibaly was also linked by French media to the ongoing Kosher supermarket siege.
