This was published 11 years ago
Charlie Hebdo terrorist crisis comes to a dramatic end
Three gunmen and four hostages are dead after two sieges in France culminated in simultaneous raids by police, amid explosions and sustained gunfire.
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Hostages are liberated after an assault by the police at a kosher grocery store Hyper Cacher in Porte de Vincennes, Paris.Credit:Snapper Media
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Police storm the building as hostages are freed. Credit:Snapper Media
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Hostages run to safety as police storm the grocery store. Credit:Snapper Media
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Police escort hostages out of the siege. Credit:Snapper Media
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French police arrest young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris. Credit:Reuters
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A body is wheeled away from a kosher grocery store. A Paris prosecutor said that gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four people when he entered the kosher market in eastern Paris.Credit:AP
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A security officer directs released hostages after they stormed a kosher market to end a hostage situation, Paris.Credit:AP
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Police watch at the hostage situation at Port de Vincennes.Credit:Getty
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French security forces swarmed a small industrial town northeast of Paris, in an operation to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of a satirical newspaper.Credit:AP
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Police watch in ParisCredit:Getty Images
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In this image taken from a video provided by PFMTV, police officers storm a kosher grocery to end a hostage situation in Paris. Credit:AP
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French firemen and emergency doctors enter a kosher deli during a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes.Credit:Antoine Antoniol/Getty Images
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French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve speaks to the media after a hostage situation in a kosher deli at Port de Vincennes.Credit:Getty
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People are led away from the scene the supermarket.Credit:Getty Images
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Officers of the french Special Police Forces look for the suspects linked to the 'Charlie Hebdo' attack near Dammartin-en-Goelle.Credit:Getty
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The two main suspects in the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo killings were sighted on Friday in the northern French town of Dammartin-en-Goele where at least one person had been taken hostage.Credit:Reuters
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Before the assault ... French special forces take position with sniper rifles on the rooftop of a complex at an industrial building in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris.Credit:Reuters
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A helicopter hovers after the final assault at the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of Paris.Credit:Reuters
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Manhunt: French police special forces on patrol in Corcy in northern Franse.Credit:AFP
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The message "Paris is Charlie" is projected on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.Credit:Reuters