French intervention police are seen at the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris
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Hundreds of French security forces have converged on an industrial park in a town northeast of Paris where two suspects in Wednesday’s terrorist attack in central Paris appear to be barricaded with at least one hostage at a printing business, the authorities said. A police official said the suspects told negotiators they intended to “die as martyrs.”
As that drama was playing out about 30 miles northeast of Paris, the police responded in force to reports of a shooting and possible hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket near the Porte de Vincennes, on the eastern edge of Paris. [...]
“We have established communication with the Kouachi brothers,” he said, referring to Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, the main suspects in the shootings at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday. “They said they wanted to die as martyrs. They are behaving like two determined terrorists who are certainly physically exhausted, but who want to escape with one last big show of force and heroic resistance. They feel trapped and know that their last hours have come.”
According to CNN, the stand-off at the grocery store is a hostage situation, with as many as five people being held by two suspects who have been tentatively linked to the Kouachi brothers.
6:16 AM PT:
Hostage-taker at Paris grocery is suspect in fatal shooting of officer; official confirms that shooting linked to newspaper attack - @AP
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8:31 AM PT:
BREAKING: Police official: Suspects in Charlie Hebdo massacre killed, hostage freed.
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9:44 AM PT:
BREAKING: Police officials: At least 4 dead, including gunman, in Paris kosher grocery hostage crisis.
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