BREAKING: Another hostage situation in Paris --- UPDATED -SPECIAL FORCES AND TANKS IN THE STREETS OF PARIS

This is yet another hostage situation - in addition to the Hebdo duo cornered with one female hostage in a printing house near Charles de Gualle airport. Three others in the same facility managed to get out. Several schools evacuated around town where massacre suspects holed up: official Some 200 children from a pre-school, primary school and high school "will be transported to the town gymnasium where their parents can collect them," said a spokesperson for the town council.

It also emerged today that authorities believe there is a link between the brothers and the suspected perpetrator of a shooting yesterday in the Parisian suburb of Montrouge in which a female police officer was killed. link

1 wounded in kosher supermarket shooting in Paris French media report shooter is suspect who shot policewoman and was member of same jihadist group as Charlie Hebdo suspects. Reuters/ynet


Charlie Hebdo murderers were on U.S. no-fly list: Brothers had been flagged as terrorist risk BEFORE Paris attack

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Exclusive: Paris attack suspect met prominent al Qaeda preacher in Yemen - intelligence source Reuters


Paris gunman was from same jihadist cell as Hebdo suspects - police

UK Daily Telegraph: Paris Charlie Hebdo attack: live
Terrorists take hostage 'and kill two people' as police surround 'war zone' industrial complex in Dammartin, while in Paris gunman takes hostages at Jewish kosher grocery - latest updates

A report from AFP just now stated that there are five hostages at the grocery store.

13.28 French media have published a picture of what they are saying is the suspect in the kosher grocery siege, who is thouhgt to have been the gunman who shot dead a policewoman yesterday morning: Image of the kosher grocer's terrorist's mug shot

13.22 RTL saying that two people have died during the hostage-taking at the kosher grocery in eastern Paris.

According to Fox News on my cable channel, women and children are being held hostage in the kosher grocery.

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13.32 The French police press release also details a woman called Hayat Boumeddiene. They describe both as armed and dangerous and have asked for anyone who recognises them to come forward: Boumeddiene is apparently the girlfriend of Coulibaly. via The Telegraph live feed

The kosher market was likely targeted as it is likely busiest in the hours preparing for shabbat.

image 10:34 Extra resources including special forces as well as gendarmarie - and a tank - are still arriving at the hostage scene, around 40 miles NE of Paris...

14.04 One person has been seriously wounded in the hostage-taking incident at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday, a police union source said.

The interior ministry denied press reports that two people had been killed.

via Telegraph @ 14.25: Amedy Coulibaly in the kosher grocery siege in eastern Paris is reportedly demanding through hostage negotiators that the Kouachi brothers - currently part of a seige in Dammartin-en-Goele - be "freed".

The Telegraph's Henry Samuel explains the suspects' backgrounds:

Coulbaly, a Frenchman of Senegalese descent from Juvisy in the Essonne area outside Paris, was part of the now notorious Buttes-Chaumont network that sought to recruit and sent radicalised French youths to Iraq in the early 2000s.

The Koachi brothers were also part of the network, based in Paris’ 19th
arrondissement.

One of 10 children and the only boy, Coulibaly became a delinquent at 17, and a repeat offender for petty thefts and drugs crimes, moving onto an armed bank robbery in September 2002 in Orleans, in the Loiret, before radicalising.

In 2013, he was convicted to five years in prison for his involvement in a
botched prison break-out of Smain Ali Belkacem, a former member of the
Algerian Islamist group GIA and the author of a 1995 attack on the Paris
transport system that killed eight people and wounded 117.

The Koachi brothers were arrested and detained for involvement in the
Belkacem breakout, but later released due to lack of evidence.

According to Le Monde, the Coulbaly and Boumeddiene were already in a relationship in 2010, when he was arrested over the jailbreak attempt. She reportedly waited for her boyfriend to be released from prison this Spring after four years in detention, and he lived with her after that in a Paris suburb.

The pair reportedly visited Beghal in 2010 in Cantal, southern France,
where he was under house arrest. That year, French surveillance officers
photographed Beghal playing football with Cherif Kouachi and two other
convicted terrorists, Ahmed Laidouni, a jihadi recruiter, and Farid Melouk,
an Algerian member of the GIA terror group.

Quizzed by French intelligence agents at the time, Boumeddiene told them that she and Coulbaly had gone there to practice “crossbow shooting”

According to @CNN, the French policewoman shot dead yesterday was in the vicinity of the intended target of attack: a Jewish primary school.

Telegraph @14.54 Paris police fear more attacks on Jewish neighourhoods and have ordered shop closures, according to AP

BREAKING: Police order all shops closed in famed Jewish neighborhood in central Paris far from attacks.

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2015

The mayor's office in Paris announced the closures Friday of shops along the Rosiers street in Paris' Marais neighborhood, in the heart of the tourist district and about a kilometer away from the offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo where 12 people were killed on Wednesday.

Hours before the Jewish Sabbath, the street is usually especially rowded with shoppers - French Jews and tourists alike.

The Vincennes region of eastern Paris in which the second, grocery hostage situation is taking place has a large Jewish population.

There has also been speculation that the attack in which a policewoman was killed yesterday in Montrouge was an aborted attempt to attack a Jewish school there.