New hostage situation reported in Paris grocery
Source: RTE
The man suspected of killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris yesterday is reported to have taken a hostage at a kosher grocery in eastern Paris.
Police say one person has been injured in a shootout at the store.
The suspect was a member of the same jihadist group as the two suspects in the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a police source said.
The man knew Cherif and Said Kouachi, the brothers suspected of killing ten journalists and two police officers on Wednesday.
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i've had it on all morning getting ready for work. they're saying that a hostage has been taken and 1 person is wounded. they're speculating that it's the same person who killed the policewoman in paris.
i guess they win, if their end game is terror.
"AFP is reporting that, according to a source close to the inquiry, at least two people are dead in the hostage situation in Paris. The BBC is unable to immediately confirm this."
Link to good live updates at BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-30722098
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"French police have put out an appeal for witnesses to yesterday's shooting in Montrouge. They are looking for two people: a woman called Hayat Boumeddiene and a man called Amedy Coulibaly."
PARIS (AP) -- A police official says the man who has taken at least five people hostage in a kosher market on the eastern edges of Paris Friday appears linked to the newsroom massacre earlier this week that left 12 people dead.
The official, who was not authorized to speak about the situation, said the man opened fire in the kosher market, near Paris' Porte de Vincennes, and declared "you know who I am."
Paris police released a photo of Amedy Coulibaly as a suspect in the killing Thursday of a policewoman, and the official named him as the man holed up in the market. He said the man is armed with an automatic rifle and some hostages have been gravely wounded.
He said a second suspect, a woman named Hayet Boumddiene, is the gunman's accomplice.
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