Massive French operation, gunfire after suspects tracked
LORI HINNANT, Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — French security forces swarmed a small industrial town northeast of Paris Friday in an operation to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of a satirical newspaper.

Shots were fired as the brothers stole a car in the early morning hours, said a French security official, who could not immediately confirm reports of hostages taken or deaths later in the day in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Paris.

Thousands of French security forces have mobilized to find Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, after the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday that left 12 people dead.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed an operation was underway in Dammartin, speaking moments after an emergency meeting with the president, prime minister and top police official.

Hours earlier, according to a security official, the brothers stole a Peugeot amid gunfire in the town of Montagny Sainte Felicite, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Paris.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a situation that was still developing.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said both brothers were known to intelligence services.

One brother was convicted of terrorism charges in 2008. Survivors of the bloody assault on Charlie Hebdo said the attackers claimed allegiance to al-Qaida in Yemen. The weekly newspaper had been repeatedly threatened — and its offices were firebombed in 2011 — after spoofing Islam and depicting the Prophet Muhammad in caricature.

Authorities around Europe have warned of the threat posed by the return of Western jihadis trained in warfare. France counts at least 1,200 citizens in the war zone in Syria — headed there, returned or dead. Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida have threatened France — home to Western Europe's largest Muslim population.

The French suspect in a deadly 2014 attack on a Jewish museum in Belgium had returned from fighting with extremists in Syria; and the man who rampaged in southern France in 2012, killing three soldiers and four people at a Jewish school, received paramilitary training in Pakistan.
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Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten, Elaine Ganley and Sylvie Corbet in Paris; and Ken Dilanian in Washington contributed to this report.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-01-09

RT @AP: BREAKING: French police convoy, helicopters rush to scene of operation to detain shooting suspects

RT @ChannelNewsAsia: Reports say 2 suspects linked to #CharlieHebdo attack now inside a construction site and negotiating with police

Hostages have been taken, at least one person dead and an exchange of fire. Doubt they will be taken alive.

Hostages have been taken, at least one person dead and an exchange of fire. Doubt they will be taken alive.

BBC says French officials are denying anyone has died, though there were injuries from an earlier shooting.

RT @AP: VIDEO: French security forces swarm industrial town northeast of Paris in bid to capture massacre suspects: http://apne.ws/1IxQlEj

RT @BBCBreaking: #CharlieHebdo suspects "prepared to die as martyrs", they tell police after making contact - French media http://bbc.in/1tSr0UC

RT @cntrentF24: French Police tell residents of Dammartin to close shutters, get away from windows and stay indoors

RT @BBCBreaking: Map shows industrial estate where 2 #CharlieHebdo suspects are holed up, surrounded by police http://bbc.in/1APCKrt http://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/553506608203169792/photo/1

RT @AP: VIDEO: French security forces swarm industrial town northeast of Paris in bid to capture massacre suspects: http://apne.ws/1IxQlEj

Shooting is too easy and good for them. Please Please take them alive, make them suffer for their filthy cowardly murders.

Surely the police have some kind of disabling weapon rather than lethal guns.

Interesting that these guys keep trying to stay alive and get away, instead of going down in a blaze of glory, like true "martyrs" would.

For me this says: There's money involved, a lot, and they want to live it out big and in freedom. So definitely, absolutely get those two scumbags alive and persuade them to give away the details of their paymaster.

RT @guardiannews: Dammartin-en-Goele siege: what we know so far #CharlieHebdo http://gu.com/p/44m45/tw http://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/553511150999306241/photo/1

RT @BBCBreaking: #CharlieHebdo suspects "prepared to die as martyrs", they tell police after making contact - French media http://bbc.in/1tSr0UC

Then leave your hide-out and take the bullets like men, you cowards!!

RT @RT_com: URGENT: Killing of policewoman in Paris linked to #CharlieHebdo attack - reports http://on.rt.com/k5ivya http://twitter.com/RT_com/status/553514636507873280/photo/1

Sky news reporting another shooting at a Kosher grocery in Paris.

RT @CBSNews: WATCH LIVE: Police respond to second reported hostage situation in eastern Paris http://cbsn.ws/1Ks2MFy

RT @andylines: French police believe there are "several" hostages being held in the Paris incident.

Terrible.

BREAKING NEWS ... THERE HAS BEEN A SHOOTING AT THE KOSHER GROCERY STORE ....

POSSIBLE SUSPECT KILLED ... !! MORE UPDATE AS IT HAPPENS ...VIA ALJAZEERA

RT @jimsciutto: At scene now of E. Paris standoff at Kosher market. Columns of police heading in. Ambulance w/police escort heading out. #ParisShooting

RT @landauro: Suspected Charlie Hebdo gunmen holed up in building behind the trees in Dammartin http://twitter.com/landauro/status/553528708016128001/photo/1

Police believe that the man currently under hostage is the one that shot at two policemen yesterday

Breaking News ...... more when I receive it.

RT @CBSNLive:At least 5 hostages in kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, according to reports: http://cbsn.ws/1AQ6UuP http://twitter.com/CBSNLive/status/553538523266318336/photo/1

RT @raulgaab: French police dealing with two hostage situations: Dammartin-En-Goele and Porte-de-Vincennes. #ch4news #CharlieHebdo

The assailants have been killed. Just the woman suspect is still on the run!

French police commando forces moved almost simultaneously against terrorists holding hostages at both sites and overwhelmed them. The brothers are confirmed killed. Three special police at the rural site not far from the airport were injured but that's all that's being said.

Television showed the Paris kosher market hostages running out of the building after the police commandos crashed in to kill at least one of the two terrorists.

Initial reports from the rural town deputy mayor is that the hostages there survived uninjured.

I agree with the French authorities that immediate and swift decisive action was necessary rather than a patient standoff for and undetermined period of time. France is under assault and it needs to act swiftly and decisively to annihilate the threats.

For Muslim apologists France is not a Muslim state. If some cartoonists decided to have some fun there is no reason to shoot them! Algerian citizens in France are guests but are not hosts, so they cannot act as hosts and shoot people for their believes. This is so wrong and me if I was a French I would react in the same way, kill the attackers all! To Muslims, keep your believes to yourselves and to your borders, don't go into the f. heart of Europe in Paris hoping to make a difference, you will be shot in the same way as you shoot innocent people. Non Muslim people don't go to a Muslim country to cause havoc!

Reports now are that some of the Paris kosher market hostages were killed, but nothing about when or how.

(CNN)A pair of dramatic raids Friday in France led to the killing of three terrorists -- one suspected in the fatal shooting of a policewoman, the other two in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine -- and to the freeing of at least some of those they were holding hostage.

The French government's work is not over. There's still a lot of healing to do, a lot of questions to answer about how to prevent future attacks, and the fact that a woman wanted in the policewoman's shooting remains at large.

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People talk about "trials" and "police whatever" but there is a time to put away correctness and just go in and kill.

This is that time.