Police storm the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris as hostages flee.
Free ... French police special forces evacuate the hostages after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris. Picture: Snapper Media Source: Snapper Media
- Kouachi brothers shot dead in overnight siege
- Gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed in Paris grocery store siege
- Four Paris grocery store hostages declared dead
- Third siege at a jewellery store in south of France underway, police say not related to Charlie Hebdo massacre
- Female terror suspect still at large
WITH a series of explosions and gunshots, French police dramatically brought to an end a three-day reign of terror that the government described as nothing short of a war.
In unprecedented scenes, French authorities were forced to mobilise almost 90,000 police and military personnel to combat two coordinated terrorist attacks and hostage taking sieges, both of which ended in a hail of bullets and death.
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Investigations underway ... Forensic officers gather outside the kosher grocery store. Picture: AP/Francois Mori Source: AP
Moved in ... Police storm the supermarket where hostages were being held by terrorist Amedy Coulibaly. Picture: France 2 Source: Supplied
At the end of the extraordinary day, two al-Qaeda linked terrorist brothers who were behind the slaying of 12 people in Paris on Wednesday were killed as was one of their associates who had shot dead a police officer on Thursday and yesterday shot and killed four hostages in a Jewish supermarket in the east of Paris.
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In scenes reminiscent of the Sydney cafe terror attack last month, in the Jewish siege a dozen hostages could be seen fleeing for their lives as paramilitary troops were forced to storm the supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes neighbourhood after terrorist gunman Amedy Coulibaly threatened to shoot them all if police attempted to end a twin siege north of the capital where police had surrounded brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi.
The brothers were named as behind the killing of 12 people including two police officers and wounding of a dozen others, four critically, at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Free ... French police special forces evacuate the hostages after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris. Picture: Snapper Media Source: Snapper Media
Enferno ... Members of the French police special forces launch an assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris. Picture: Snapper Media Source: Snapper Media
The bloody climax brought to an end the worst terror spree France has seen in 50 years with a rampage around Paris killing seven people on Friday, one on Thursday and 12 on Wednesday with up to 15 others injured in the melee.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo prompted outrage around the world with the hacking collective Anonymous declaring war on Islamic terrorism and vowing to track down and destroy jihadist websites and social media accounts.
Meanwhile, the surviving staff of the satirical magazine, which was targeted for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, have gathered in the offices of French newspaper Liberation to put together a trimmed down eight-page edition of Charlie Hebdo which will go on sale next week. A million copies of the next issue will be printed, up from the usual 60,000 run.
On Sunday leaders from around the world will gather in Paris for a mass unity rally being staged in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
British prime minister David Cameron and German chancellor Angela Merkel will attend the event alongside the leaders of Spain, Italy and Finland and ministers from Russia and Canada.
Frantic .. Distraught hostages are rushed to safety after being rescued from a Jewish supermarket. Picture: Snapper Media. Source: Snapper Media
Yesterday's phenomenal day of drama began about 8am with police exchanging gunshots with the Kouachi brothers who had earlier hijacked a car in Montagny-Sainte-Felicite 55km north east of Paris.
The pair raced to the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, 42km northeast of the capital close to the Charles de Gaulle Airport as they later hole up in a printers firm warehouse in the town's industrial quarter. About 1500 police and paramilitary troops surrounded the town which went into lockdown with locals ordered to remain indoors with doors and windows locked and lights off. Several police and army helicopters were brought into the action prompting commercial flights heading to Charles de Gaulle to be rerouted.
Police made contact with the gunmen who pledged to die as martyrs and a lengthy standoff began. The pair had also contacted a TV station and told them they were financed and dispatched by al-Qaeda in Yemen. They also spoke hundreds of times to their accomplice Amedy Coulibaly.
About 1pm, the 32-year-old gunman Coulibaly who police suspected was behind the execution murder of a young police officer in Paris on Thursday opened fire in the Jewish supermarket 'Hyper Cacher' killing some people and taking up to 15 hostages including a mother and baby. About this time, he was named by police as being an associate of the Kouachi brothers. His girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene was also named by police as a suspect in the police killing. Hundreds of officers shut about a square kilometre radius of the high-density mostly Jewish neighbourhood as the siege took place.
Distraught ... Hostages are rescued from a Jewish supermarket. Not all made it out alive. Picture: Snapper Media. Source: Snapper Media
About 5pm French commandos stormed the warehouse and shoot dead the Kouachi brothers. A man who had been hiding in the warehouse and speaking secretly with police while he hid under a box was found unhurt. About 15 minutes later, with Coulibaly — who claimed he was attached to Islamic State (ISIS) — threatening to execute his hostages if the Kouachi brothers were attacked, commandos stormed the supermarket. There remained conflicting reports but the gunman and four hostages were killed with four others critically wounded including possibly one counter terrorist police officer. Boumeddiene remained at large.
It was a bloody climax to three days of terror for France that had brought worldwide condemnation from popes to presidents, but created spontaneous mass public rallies of defiance.
Hayat Boumeddiene, the girlfried of killed terrorist Amedy Coulibaly is wanted and on the run. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said it was a "war" against terrorism and not religion.
"We knew we could be hit," he said, adding he had no doubt the French would emerge stronger from the incident," he said.
"What are terrorists looking for? To create fear, to pit the French against each other — and we must be stronger than that."
President Francoise Hollande said his country had "faced down" the jihadist Islamists.
"I call for vigilance, unity and a mobilisation," he said.
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