#CharlieHebdo: Two Horrendous Hostage Situations around Paris

January 9, 2015

#CharlieHebdo: Two Horrendous Hostage Situations around Paris

by Kim Hirsch in Headlines 10 Comments

Two intense standoffs are occurring in France, as authorities have cornered the Kouachi brothers, suspected in the Charlie Hebdo murders.

They had robbed a gasoline station near a town 70 miles northeast of Paris, where their car was seen with rocket launchers and assault weapons.

On Friday morning (GMT) the Kouachi were reported to have taken hostages at a print works in Dammartin-en-Goële, about 26 miles northeast of Paris. The standoff continues as I write. French authorities have sealed off the town and restricted flights to the Charles de Gaulle Airport, which is close by. Hostage negotiations have begun, although it was reported to French media that the brothers want to die as martyrs.

parisshootingCDT — The site where the Kouachi brothers have taken hostages. Courtesy: The Guardian

Meanwhile, a man identified as Amedy Coulibaly and his girlfriend Hayat Boumeddienne are suspected of taking hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris. Coulibaly and Boumeddiene are also suspected of killing the female police officer in a Parisian suburb on Thursday. Coulibaly is believed to be a member of the same jihadi group which launched the Kouachi brothersAs I write, Sky News is reporting that the supermarket hostage takers are threatening to kill hostages if police raid the Kouachi brothers.

UPDATE: CNN is now reporting gun shots and flash bangs at the printing plant. A helicopter is moving in. Gunfire and explosions were heard at the kosher supermarket.

Kouachi brothers have been killed; BBC reporting killing of hostage takers in kosher supermarket.

Charlie Hebdo hostages Jihadi kosher supermarket Kouachi brothers Paris standoff

Written by Kim Hirsch

Kim is a pint-sized patriot who packs some big contradictions. She is a Baby Boomer who never became a hippie, an active Republican who first registered as a Democrat (okay, it was to help a sorority sister's father in his run for sheriff), and a devout Lutheran who practices yoga. Growing up in small-town Indiana, now living in the Kansas City metro, Kim is a conservative Midwestern gal whose heart is also in the Seattle area, where her eldest daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live. Kim is a working speech pathologist who left school system employment behind to subcontract to an agency, and has never looked back. She describes her conservatism as falling in the mold of Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles. Don't know what they are? Google them!

10 Comments

Appalled By The World says:

January 9, 2015 at 8:04 am

Good thing they have gun control in France-it would be awful if the pigs had pistols-so instead they have rocket launchers. Very nice.

Seriously-I hope the French just kill those terrorist bastards on the spot. Never mind about stupid trials where those pigs get a platform to spout their allahu akbars-trials are for citizens anyway. And if this scum are French born converts-try them in secret for treason and then let the head chopper do its thing.

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- Jodi says:
  
  January 9, 2015 at 8:13 am
  
  I believe they are French-born.
  
  How’s that gun control of your citizenry working out, France? Let’s ask Australia, too.
  
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  - Appalled By The World says:
    
    January 9, 2015 at 10:02 am
    
    French born, eh? They need to reopen Devil’s Island and de-Koranify those bastards, just like the de-Nazification of Germans after WW2. Or better yet-just drop them there and let nature take its course. Their god will provide for them, right?
    
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  - GWB says:
    
    January 9, 2015 at 10:29 am
    
    They are French-born, but they are of Algerian descent. Those folks are the primary source of the jihadi contingent.
    
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GWB says:

January 9, 2015 at 10:32 am

Latest update is 3 terrorists dead in both situations, the possibility that the 4th (the woman) escaped in the outflow of hostages at the supermarket, and possibly up to 4 hostages dead at the supermarket.

God bless the innocent dead and carry them to your bosom.
May the fires of hell scorch the jihadists for all eternity.

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Chris in N.Va. says:

January 9, 2015 at 1:39 pm

Yet once again, those militant, blue-haired, octogenarian, Scandinavian, evangelical Lutheran grandmothers have risen up in violent anger to savagely and without remorse avenge the insults that Charlie Hebdo published, demeaning ther—–

What’s that?

It wasn’t a bunch of Lutefisk-bloated senior citizens?

Gawrsh, who then could it possibly be?

Bushies and Tea Partiers?

Hmmm…..

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Xavier says:

January 9, 2015 at 6:55 pm

There was an unknown hostage in the grocery – he hid and texted the police, informed them of lots of details that helped them storm the building.

So the media printed his name and picture.

Facepalm.

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- Nina says:
  
  January 9, 2015 at 9:31 pm
  
  Major courage on his part.
  
  The media?? I’m not sure there’s enough space to list all the names I want to call them right now…
  
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  - Appalled By The World says:
    
    January 9, 2015 at 10:31 pm
    
    Traitorous pigs is a good start. But then again the media helps to encourage all this garbage in the first place so ratting on the guy is simply par for the course.
    
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- Appalled By The World says:
  
  January 9, 2015 at 10:28 pm
  
  Terrific media. One would think this happened in Riyadh rather than Paris.
  
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