France's deadly day of hostage-takers
- 9 years ago
Wednesday, at around 11:30 in Paris, number 10 rue Nicolas-Appert, two hooded men execute a wounded policeman on the ground.
They have just murdered 11 other people — eight of them Charlie Hebdo editorial staff, a single police bodyguard, one visitor and the maintenance man.
The pair escape while exchanging fire with police. The car they use is found at 14:30. One of their identity cards is in it. They are identified as brothers: Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, 32 and 34, born in Paris of Algerian parents. The elder of the two was convicted of terrorist-related activity in 2008 and spent time in prison.
France’s national security alert system Vigipirate is at maximum alert. Anti-terrorist squads investigate in Strasbourg, Rheims and Charleville-Mezières near the border with Belgium. Police, gendarmerie and soldiers — some 80,000 in total — are deployed in the hunt for the suspects.
Thursday, a policewoman is fatally wounded while at the scene of a minor traffic accident in Montrouge j
They have just murdered 11 other people — eight of them Charlie Hebdo editorial staff, a single police bodyguard, one visitor and the maintenance man.
The pair escape while exchanging fire with police. The car they use is found at 14:30. One of their identity cards is in it. They are identified as brothers: Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, 32 and 34, born in Paris of Algerian parents. The elder of the two was convicted of terrorist-related activity in 2008 and spent time in prison.
France’s national security alert system Vigipirate is at maximum alert. Anti-terrorist squads investigate in Strasbourg, Rheims and Charleville-Mezières near the border with Belgium. Police, gendarmerie and soldiers — some 80,000 in total — are deployed in the hunt for the suspects.
Thursday, a policewoman is fatally wounded while at the scene of a minor traffic accident in Montrouge j