French Police Storm Hostage Sites, Killing Gunmen.
Source: nyt
Charlie Hebdo Suspects Dead in Raid; Hostage Taker in Paris Is Also Killed
The French police on Friday killed the two brothers suspected of massacring 12 people at a Paris newspaper on Wednesday and freed a hostage they had been holding unharmed, the authorities said. But at least three hostages were killed when the police staged a separate assault on a kosher supermarket in Paris.
Five hostages at the supermarket, on the eastern edge of Paris, were injured, and five were reported to have been freed. The hostage taker, described as an associate of the brothers, was also killed, according to a senior French police official.
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)This has been just the saddest war, engaging several continents, religious faiths, and folks from all political persuasions.
What good has come from this years-long war, I will never comprehend.
Peace to the families of the fallen.
elleng
(130,974 posts)The only good is an end.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)intended to cause fear and more violence, a despicable an inexcusable action.
Igel
(35,320 posts)Nice touch, if the detail's confirmed.
Gets all the right buttons pushed. French, law-enforcement, Jews.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,518 posts)While they're still trying to get a firm answer on the hostages. There were reportedly 16 held hostage at the grocery, some killed initially, four, according to a source. People are still being treated at the grocery store scene.
The Green Manalishi
(1,054 posts)Terrorists don't and can't do anything without a logistical system behind them; find out who abetted and then terminate with extreme prejudice.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)there are holes through the net they can't find just in time to prevent some religious gun nuts from passing through them.
Kennah
(14,276 posts)Either the gunmen had a death wish, or they'd watched too much Fox News and believed the cheese eating surrender monkey bullshit.