Terrorist attacks in France

16:11
AFP news agency reports an official source saying that French commandos have launched an assault on the site of the siege in Dammartin-en-Goele.



16:14
The BFMTV news channel has broadcast live footage of a helicopter from the French emergency services landing in the area. It is as yet unknown if anyone has been injured in the security operation.

Breaking News

Posted at 16:16
Five loud explosions have been heard at the hostage site in eastern Paris.

Christian Fraser

BBC News, Paris


Posted at 16:18
We just heard five explosions coming from the direction of the supermarket... then the sirens started wailing in this part of Paris but so far we have not heard any gunfire, just five loud explosions.

Dammartin hostage is safe and sound

Breaking News

Posted at 16:21
AFP is reporting that the Kouachi brothers' hostage has been freed and is safe following a police assault on the warehouse in Dammartin.



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Posted at 16:21
Police have been seen storming the supermarket, with one woman seen leaving, AP reports. Women and children are believed to be among the hostages held inside the building.

Dammartin, both dead.

Vincennes, two agents wounded.

That's it.

I am going for a verre now.

Brothers 'came out firing'

Posted at 16:30
A source to AFP says that the Kouachi brothers "came out firing" on security forces.

Breaking News

Posted at 16:31
The hostage-taker at the supermarket in eastern Paris is also reported dead by Le Monde newspaper.

Thetruth wrote:That's it.

I am going for a verre now.

Thank you for your updates.

Thetruth wrote:That's it.

I am going for a verre now.

Thank you very much Thetruth and candyfloss.

It was preferable to read factual info on here than listen to Jeremy & Kate on Sky

Breaking News

Posted at 16:57
At least four hostages killed in Paris supermarket siege, Reuters reports quoting police sources.

I'm back.

Hyper Cacher.

Two hostage takers killed. Two men.

Four innocents killed at the start of the whole thing.

Dammartin, the hostage remined 'hidden' all the time.


Verre time now.

Hostage taking taking place in Montpellier.

France Tv one minute ago.

Thetruth wrote:Hostage taking taking place in Montpellier.

France Tv one minute ago.

Oh no!

Thank you for your updates Thetruth xx

Thetruth wrote:Hostage taking taking place in Montpellier.

France Tv one minute ago.

Pas de panicle, I hope. Just a robbery gone wrong. I hope.

No link. No terrorists.

The station which reprimanded for showing police agents positioning themselves on the roof, BFM has just happily announced that they had called the brothers this morning and discussed calmly their motives and financing.

Coulibaly then called the station at 3pm and discussed calmly his project. He asked for the number of the police and BFM say they kept the police au courant.

I find this behavior by journalists to be highly irresponsible and astonishing.

Mais c'est la France.

Wonder how their meeting with Allah went?

Mimi wrote:Wonder how their meeting with Allah went?

Probably still busy with their 72 virgins.Begs the question where they find all those virgins and what happens to them after.

That aside it looks like the French police did a very good job in difficult circumstances.

I just wish the British police had done the same to Lee Rigbys killers.

So mobile phone networks were not closed down as was the case with 7/7-  it would only have been useful in stopping the two brothers phoning the one in the supermarket. No doubt for that reason both locations had to be attacked at the same time. 

Relieved it's over - the article in the Daily Mail was very good this morning mentioning the late great Dave Allen, who did the most outrageous  religious  parodies. But always said 'may your God go with you' . 


Here, the government has just admitted they were aware the air space above the Ukraine was dangerous, however decided they did not need to pass it on to commercial airlines. Because they fly high - so that's really marvellous  reasoning. 

Right on top  of that we've been assured that security related to terrorism has been strengthened but in suchna way that we won't notice. You can't make it up. 

Nobody succeeded in calling their kids mobiles at the school near the printers, so I am sure they had turned the masts off. The French (aka we can do what we want, when we want) journos dialed a land line to speak to the brothers.

The guy in Vincennes called them in the afternoon and left the phone off the hook.

The president Normal has been on TV to say we will not give in (to what exactly?) and the prime minister followed up with a nothing to do with me guv statement.

The police knew all the attackers but could do nothing, before. Politics.

Papers all obviously have the sieges on their front pages....

Paris Charlie Hebdo attack: Je Suis Charlie hashtag one of most popular in Twitter history

Je Suis Charlie was tweeted at a rate of 6,500 times a minute at its height following Paris massacre

More on link....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11336879/Paris-Charlie-Hebdo-attack-Je-Suis-Charlie-hashtag-one-of-most-popular-in-Twitter-history.html