11 dead in French satirical magazine shooting

[derspiess]

I keep hearing on that France 24 Live feed that the hostages are dead.  Hopefully they're wrong.

EDIT: Now they're saying all hostages are alive.  That's better.

[Duque de Bragança]

Two police officers (BRI) wounded during the Porte de Vincennes assault. (LCI TV)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_de_recherche_et_d%27intervention

[Liep]

I keep hearing on that France 24 Live feed that the hostages are dead.  Hopefully they're wrong.

EDIT: Now they're saying all hostages are alive.  That's better.

Photos from Sky News show at least 4 hostages being guided away after the explosions.

[Liep]

[derspiess]

Good.  Hope things settle down from this point.

[Duque de Bragança]

Assaults were launched at the same time with perfect police services cooperation i.e R.A.I.D, G.I.G.N and B.R.I squads. No guerre des polices this time some French commentators said (reference to past event between police and gendarmerie).

Still some doubt whether the Kouachi brothers knew there was a civillian in the Dammartin printing shop where they holed themselves up, so no real hostage to speak of.

[Liep]

Rumours have it that the chick from the Jewish shop is armed and at large.

[Liep]

Four hostages was killed in the jewish shop, confirmed.

[Liep]

The footage showing the assault on the shop doesn't make the French police look particularly professional. But maybe that's because I'm looking at it with unprofessional eyes.

[Duque de Bragança]

Rumours have it that the chick from the Jewish shop is armed and at large.

First, they talked of another guy then her. It's still pretty unclear.
Now, they're talking on LCI of 3 then 4 dead hostages, plus 4 severely wounded (life-threatening condition).

edit:

AFP says now 4 hostages dead as reported per Liep

Rumours have it that the chick from the Jewish shop is armed and at large.

First, they talked of another guy then her. It's still pretty unclear.
Now, they're talking on LCI of 3 then 4 dead hostages, plus 4 severely wounded (life-threatening condition).

edit:

AFP says now 4 hostages dead as reported per Liep

LCI had a police source saying the chick was at large as well.
Interesting tweet

France Info@franceinfo
EDITION SPÉCIALE | "Des dizaines d'otages évacués de la superette de Vincennes" (source policière) franceinfo.fr/player

Dozens of hostages were freed (police source)

[Jacob]

Good that they got the fuckers.

Still hoping that reports of dead hostages are fog-of-war-misreports

[Duque de Bragança]

Good that they got the fuckers.

Still hoping that reports of dead hostages are fog-of-war-misreports

I'm afraid it's all but confirmed. The only question remaining now is whether they were executed at the beginning of the hostage taking, or during the assault. That and the fate of the female companion of Amedy Coulibaly.

[Sheilbh]

DdB, you'll know. I saw reports that Hollande gave a banal press conference of generalities while the siege was still taking place. Did he?

[Tamas]

DdB, you'll know. I saw reports that Hollande gave a banal press conference of generalities while the siege was still taking place. Did he?

That would be awkward but in general I wouldn't mind if a country's top guy dont have to hand-steer every god damn thing. It is a sign of a good organisation if he can say "free these hostages in the most efficient manner possible" and then just let it go.

[Sheilbh]

Sure. But I can't understand why you'd give a press conference during a crisis like that unless you had something to announce. Which, apparently, he didn't