Suspects in Charlie Hebdo attack have been killed
The suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre were killed on Friday, according to several several reports including the Associated Press, Dow Jones and AFP.
Police launched an assault Friday on a factory in northern France where the suspects in the Paris shooting were believed to be holding a hostage.
A gunman who was believed to be holding at least five hostages Friday at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris was also killed, according to French newspaper Le Monde.
Four explosions were heard at the site of the assault in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, a 12 kilometer (seven-mile) drive from Charles De Gaulle Airport. Police cordoned off an industrial estate, and French news channel France 24 reported that 1,000 officers were involved.
The two brothers were been cornered by police inside a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goele. One police officer told The Associated Press earlier that the suspects told negotiators they “want to die as martyrs.”
A police official has told reporters that the gunman held up inside the kosher store is believed responsible for the roadside killing of a Paris policewoman on Thursday. Authorities released a photo of him and a female accomplice but were unclear about her whereabouts.
The gunman at the kosher market has apparently threatened to kill his hostages if police launched an assault on the cornered brothers suspected in the newspaper massacre, an unidentified police official told The Associated Press earlier.
Police have closed down a ring road that circles Paris near the kosher supermarket, which would have busy ahead of the approaching Jewish Sabbath at sundown.
To stop the suspected killers from finding out where the search is being focused, the French police force has asked journalists via Facebook to stop filming in the area.
Hours earlier, the Associated Press reported quoting a security official, the brothers stole a Peugeot amid gunfire.
Aéroports de Paris confirmed Friday that that some flights heading into Charles De Gaulle Airport had been diverted.
French President Francois Hollande said the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where 12 people were killed, was the worst in France for 50 years. A meeting of interior ministers of European states would be held on Sunday, he added. A meeting scheduled for Sunday between the leaders of France and Germany has been postponed, French President Francois Hollande’s office said on Friday in light of the current security operations.