{"id":21263,"date":"2015-01-09T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=21263"},"modified":"2015-01-09T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:51:47","slug":"paris-hostage-takers-dead-hostages-being-freed-after-simultaneous-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/paris-hostage-takers-dead-hostages-being-freed-after-simultaneous-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris hostage takers dead, hostages being freed after simultaneous raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 All hostage takers are dead, and their hostages are being freed after simultaneous raids on the two sites in Paris, one a kosher supermarket,\u00a0attacked\u00a0by terrorists today.<\/p>\n<p>At least four people in addition to the three hostage takers are reported dead. Four others, probably hostages, were reported injured and three officers were also reported injured in the action that freed the hostages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21264\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/paris-police-1024x683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21264\" class=\"wp-image-21264 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/paris-police-1024x683-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"paris-police-1024x683\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/paris-police-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/paris-police-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21264\" class=\"wp-image-21264 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/paris-police-1024x683-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"paris-police-1024x683\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/paris-police-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/paris-police-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-21264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. According to reports at least five people have been taken hostage in a kosher deli in the Port de Vincennes area of Paris. (Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One woman,\u00a0Hayat Boumeddiene, is reported at large. She apparently escaped in the confusion after the hostage crisis ended in a hail of bullets.<\/p>\n<p>The hostage situation began at 1:00 p.m. Friday\u00a0at Hyper Cacher, a kosher supermarket near Porte de Vincennes in Paris\u2019\u00a012th arrondissement, at a time when\u00a0the store is usually full of Jewish shoppers preparing for Shabbat,\u00a0Chlomik Zenouda, vice president of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism said.<\/p>\n<p>French police set up a security perimeter around the supermarket, where eight to 12 people, including at least one child, were being held hostage.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the shots were fired from an automatic assault rifle. The shooter then retreated into the supermarket, witnesses said. One person was injured in the shooting, and French media later reported that at least two people died at the scene, although this has not yet been confirmed by France\u2019s interior ministry. According to the online edition of the Le Point daily, the two fatalities were hostages.<\/p>\n<p>French police simultaneously negotiated with two men who were holding hostages in a printing shop north of Paris. The men identified themselves as Cherif and Saidf Kouachi, brothers in their 30s\u00a0whom French police named as the shooters in an attack Wednesday on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly that\u00a0had come under attack by Islamists for its publication of items deemed offensive to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Dutch Het Parool daily, police sources in France said the hostage takers at the kosher supermarket were\u00a0in contact with the brothers. Reuters reported police had received threats that the hostages in the kosher shop would be killed if the brothers were\u00a0harmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to unnamed police sources, there is\u00a0evidence linking the person responsible for the crisis at the kosher shop, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, to the slaying of a Paris police officer Thursday by a man who shot her and another state employee with an AK-47.<\/p>\n<p>The killer in the Montrouge attack shot the officer and wounded another person after his vehicle was involved in an accident, French media reported. He then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the storming of the kosher supermarket, police released photos of Coulibaly and Boumeddiene and identified them as the two people wanted in the shooting of the police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives of some of the people being held hostage at the kosher shop arrived at the scene during the standoff but were prevented from approaching, Alain Azria, a French Jewish journalist who was at the scene, told JTA. Among the hostages were\u00a0one woman and her daughter, he said. The girl\u2019s father was forced to wait behind the police line for over an hour, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Police locked down schools in the vicinity. Authorities in the 4th Arrondissement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mairiedu4e\/status\/553545824488390656\">said<\/a>\u00a0that police had ordered shops to close on the rue de Rosiers, a Jewish area where shoppers tend to proliferate in the hours before Shabbat.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorists involved in the various attacks\u00a0were followers of Djamel Beghal, a charismatic Islamist, Le Monde\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/societe\/article\/2015\/01\/09\/fusillade-de-montrouge-suspect-identifie-deux-nouvelles-interpellations_4552503_3224.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Paris%20hostage%20takers%20dead%2C%20hostages%20being%20freed%20after%20simultaneous%20raids%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[689,6630,8790,8795,8788,688,3357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21286,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263\/revisions\/21286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}