They had shared ‘operations’ : them, the Kouachi brothers took care of Charlie Hebdo , he Amedy Coulibaly, “police” , in his own words. And Jews. He finally killed four people Friday, January 9, in “Hyper hide” Porte de Vincennes in Paris. “Today, in this kosher store, it is an appalling anti-Semitic act that been committed “, solemnly pointed out in the evening Francois Hollande. The three men killed a total of seventeen people and injured a dozen others before being shot dead by the police. Twenty dead in three days.
Said and Cherif Kouachi were first, we know, caused carnage in the premises of Charlie Hebdo , Wednesday, January 7. Twelve people died in a few minutes, the six main designers of the newspaper – the police found 57 ground sockets. The brothers managed to escape, they are seen the next day in a service station at Villers-Cotterets, Aisne, and then loses track of them.
The same day, at 7 10 pm, a small car accident Avenue Pierre-Brossolette Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, turns to tragedy. Two municipal police approached a man dressed in black, wearing a hood and a bulletproof vest, shot at the Kalashnikov
A young police 25 years, employed by the city of Montrouge. , died instantly. Witnesses try to intervene, but the man pulls out a handgun and wounded an officer of the road, which draws narrowly: the bullet passed through his cheek from side to side. The attacker robs a car and disappears. The vehicle was found later near the RER, Arcueil (Val-de-Marne). The man dropped his hood in Montrouge, allowing the positive identification through a DNA trace: this is Amedy Coulibaly, sentenced to five years in prison for plotting to escape from the Artificer bombings in Paris in 1995
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The seat of Dammartin
The next day, Friday, January 9, the day has barely stand up when a police patrol in turn wipes shots in the industrial area of Dammartin-en-Goële, Seine-et-Marne. The police retaliated, one of the two attackers, Said Kouachi, one of the killers of Charlie , bleeds a little, he was slightly wounded in the throat. He retreats with his brother in the buildings of a printing press, Trends Creation and Discovery (CTD), taking hostage his boss, Michael Catalano. The two men did not know it, but there’s another employee in the building. He took refuge in the cafeteria on the second floor, and managed to be forgotten by hiding under a sink.
Didier, trade, had just appointment at 8 am with the 30 CTD boss. “When I arrived, my client is out with an armed person, who introduced himself as the police, the man told RTL. In front of the door, I shook hands with Michel and a terrorist. He said: “I am the police, go, we do not kill civilians.” “ Journalists and police are not civilians, for Kouachi brothers. Begins a long wait. The GIGN, the intervention group of the gendarmerie, took position around the building. The boss of printing is released without damage to 10 h 20, he explained to the gendarmes that the two men camped on the first floor have Kalashnikovs, a rocket launcher and Molotov cocktails. The mist rises slowly on the Brie plateau.
Dammartin-en-Goële, 8000 inhabitants, wakes up startled. “My daughter called me from Australia when she saw on television what was happening in Dammartin” , says Christine Ramirez, municipal councilor in Moussy-le-Vieux, a neighboring commune . There is fear for children: the school group Henri Dunant is distant only a few hundred meters from the industrial area. Buses to the train was chartered to evacuate the school in the early afternoon, they are like a presidential convoy escorted by bikers and cars CRS and grouped in a gym, where waiting for school psychologists and Mayor Michel Dutruge (UMP), black coat and mine tired, in constant contact with the Prefect. Parents tell organizational galleys to get their kids, between work and caps police roadblocks.
A 11 h 45, the negotiators of the GIGN trying to contact policyholders, hostage. They leave messages on mobile, but the two brothers did not respond. They talked a few minutes, however, with a BFM TV journalist who called the printing press. “We are defenders of the Prophet, said one of the two men. I was sent me, Sherif Kouachi by Al-Qaida in Yemen. I went there, and that’s Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki which I financed. “ That was before the death of the American preacher installed in Yemen killed by a drone attack in 2011. ” May Allah have mercy on him “ concludes the hostage taker .
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The attack of the Porte de Vincennes
At the other end of the Paris region, Porte de Vincennes, a man enters the supermarket Hyper hide at the foot of the device, in the 20 th arrondissement of Paris, a street of Saint-Mande. It is 13 h 35. This is the eve of shabat, there in the world in the store. The man, armed to the teeth, immediately killing three people, it is not clear under what circumstances. One hostage managed to escape, he was wounded by bullets in the arm and hand, but his life is not in danger. The police RAID encircle the building once the area is sealed off, the device is off.
It’s Coulibaly. The police quickly identified on the videos. He does not of otherwise hidden; he called font-relief by simply saying “you know who I am,” before hanging up. In the basement, hostages quietly call the police. At 14 h 30, the man pulls the cables from the video surveillance system and confiscated mobile phones. He spends a call to the police station the Daumesnil and asked to speak to the Prime Minister or the President of the Republic.
At 15 hours, two hostages managed to call the police-help, and to explain whisper that three people died, and they are still in September They say that man has a bulletproof vest and a Kalashnikov. Still difficult to know what happened, but when Coulibaly again gives his new, a few minutes later, a fourth hostage died. The young man calls himself BFMTV, to 15 hours. It provides a clear voice belong to the Islamic state, and explains to have “synchronized” with the two brothers Kouachi: “them Charlie Hebdo my police “
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The deputy director of writing, Alexis Delahousse, asked him: “How many are you? “ He says ” four dead “. The four-minute recording, broadcast after the taking of hostages, was immediately surrendered to the police and never fully released. Amedy Coulibaly said it was still joined kosher supermarket “because he was targeting Jews” . Twelve people were evacuated from Lenôtre store at 15 h 40, in a serious state of shock. As Dammartin are expected feverishly. Everyone knows, the first hostage takers, there is no way out, they will die. But by killing many people before?
“This is War”
At the window of a small building, a boy of ten years apostrophe a passerby. “Hey mister? What’s going on here? “” Well, it’s war, huh? “, the man replied without stopping. The deployment of police forces is impressive. A helicopter, dozens of vehicles – fire, police, ambulance … The boulevard starting from the Place de la Nation, black ordinary cars, is blocked on both sides, and the popular, modest and quiet, holding its breath.
“The area is very quiet, no problem, says Rima, 35. There are lots of, Arab, black, Jewish, living here and get along well. “ In early afternoon, the area is cut in two, then four, as and as the police is expanding its device. A cord on the bridge over the device separates a father from the crib where her daughter. “Can not go sir, replied police, your daughter is safe, all schools and nurseries are packed and protected. “
Just below the RAID men donned their hoods quietly under the gaze of the curious gathered on the bridge. At 16 hours, the CRS begin to push back onlookers, in spurts. Small groups of police methodically invest buildings, apartment by apartment, they are down journalists who are invited from local residents.
The assault Vincennes
Soon 17 h 15, the night begins to fall. The assault is given Porte de Vincennes. A grenade was thrown at one of the entrances to the left of the store, another right and tumble fact one of the letters of the neon sign, police massed in front of the entrance, the armored truck Brigade Research and Intervention (BIS), a huge square box with a jet black struggling to get into his car depositing the courthouse, freezes in the middle of the street.
Police officers from RAID and BIS are grouped on one side and the other of the front door. The iron curtain rises with excruciating slowness. As soon as possible, a fearless policeman rushes inside pulling shots and slides to the right, his colleagues cover. Many are drawn on both sides for a few quick seconds; the officers entered one after the other in the store, and then a shadow advances running towards the police. He has no chance, and immediately falls, riddled with bullets. The hostages fled screaming. A policeman dragged on the pavement by two of his comrades. Two of them were wounded in the leg, another more serious but his prognosis is not engaged
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It’s over. The area remains blocked part of the night to allow the police to scientific findings and to collect all relevant information to the investigation. Coulibaly has left behind an arsenal. Two Kalashnikov submachine gun type Scorpio, two Russian handgun, 9mm Tokef of a knife. He trapped the supermarket with civil explosive sticks with detonators.
Sarah and Tony, who live just on the other side of the device, are reassured and worried. “I am relieved that the hostage crisis is over. But we are afraid that other unemployed youths take an example, tell the young men watching a video of a French party to wage jihad in Syria. Today is this little shop but tomorrow it may be in Carrefour and Auchan . “Except that it was the Jews who were targeted.
The concern of the Jewish community
The hostage shows “once again that the threat to the Jewish community is real good,” , says the Chief Rabbi of France, Haim Korsia. Roger Cukierman, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), “the Jewish community, already anxious, has additional reasons to worry. The situation becomes quite serious: I feel that this is the war of jihad against the West, with targets that are journalists, freedom of expression and Jews. “
Porte de Vincennes, four men seriously talking on the sidewalk. One in yarmulke, came with her two small children. All know and live close to: their kosher store that was attacked. “I came to see the identity of the wounded or dead. Provided that the cashiers did nothing. It’s little girls of 18 years. We know them. “
The man in the yarmulke says course ” that was in the viewfinder when yesterday. You think the guy was in Montrouge by chance? I’m sure Coulibaly wanted to attack the Jewish school that was close to the place where he killed police … He missed his target and retried today. “His three friends approve. They will meet on Saturday in one of the two synagogues in Vincennes-Saint-Mande, one historical, Ashkenazi and one Sephardi.
From 14 pm, police officers arrived rue des Rosiers, in the Marais, in Paris, the old Jewish quarter. They asked traders to close shop. The same path, the Mecca of cheap clothing. The traditional Friday prayers tonight was canceled around, waiting for the end of the hostage-taking. In a kosher restaurant, a seller believes that “ this is only the beginning,” . Rue des Rosiers, an old man with a white beard sighs that “ nothing has changed, it’s always the same thing.”
Sasha, engineering student, buys sushi in a kosher restaurant. “ The terrorists are harming Muslims, it will be horrible for them, so they have nothing to do” said the young man. He regrets that “ inevitably, we will go through the extreme right to power.” Marc Konczaty, leader of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France (MJLF) believes that it is all about “France is attacked,” and must be “ continue to live, to be proud of who we are, of our democracy. ” This is why he called for a demonstration on Sunday. With a dull anxiety. “ There was Merah in Toulouse, Dieudonné and his hatred surge, then today … That’s still a lot of little stones. “ Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, asked France to maintain a high level of security around Jewish institutions, ” even after a return to normal, “.
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The late brothers Kouachi
Dammartin it is not quite 17 hours, the night is about to fall. In the residential area, near the industrial area where the flags are strung with ocher tiles, they rushed to the window to hear the detonations. Sharif Said and Kouachi, exhausted by the tension and sleepless nights, have nothing to lose. They be cleft the door of the printing fifteen centimeters and shoot a burst over the gendarmes who throw them blast grenades. A dense cloud of smoke, swallowed by the wind, flies printing. The two men continued to shoot, they are immediately killed by snipers of the GIGN. The shooting did not last much longer than a minute, two policemen were injured.
On Friday night, François Molins, the Paris prosecutor, explained at length the chain of events. Five people, relatives of Kouachi brothers were still in custody, it always looks the companion of Coulibaly. The judicial investigation will be opened and assigned to a judge will gather all procedures and will endeavor to provide details of the killing of Charlie , the shooting of Montrouge, the fugitive brothers Kouachi and two assaults. Twenty dead in three days.
Franck Johannès with our correspondents
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