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elleng

(130,974 posts)
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 01:36 PM Jan 2015

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.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. Thanks elleng. Looks like no additional innocent victims, thank goodness.
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 01:41 PM
Jan 2015

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.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
3. All the victims were innocents, and this was not an act of war but of terror. It was mass murder
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 01:55 PM
Jan 2015

intended to cause fear and more violence, a despicable an inexcusable action.

Igel

(35,320 posts)
9. And at a kosher supermarket, at that.
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 06:07 PM
Jan 2015

Nice touch, if the detail's confirmed.

Gets all the right buttons pushed. French, law-enforcement, Jews.

Rhiannon12866

(205,518 posts)
7. CNN reported that the two brothers and the accomplice at the grocery are dead
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 02:34 PM
Jan 2015

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)
6. Find out who funded them, who trained them and where they got their weapons
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 02:29 PM
Jan 2015

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)
8. Been doing that for years, actually, but sadly...
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 02:35 PM
Jan 2015

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)
10. Don't fuck with the GIGN!
Sat Jan 10, 2015, 12:03 AM
Jan 2015

Either the gunmen had a death wish, or they'd watched too much Fox News and believed the cheese eating surrender monkey bullshit.

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