Fears remained acute and security levels were kept at France’s highest level as Hayat Boumeddiene, the girlfriend of one of three gunmen killed in a fiery climax to twin hostage dramas on Friday, remained on the loose.
But refusing to be cowed, people poured onto the streets in cities around France in poignantly silent marches yesterday paying tribute to those killed in the nation’s bloodiest week in more than half a century.
The marches in the cities of Nice, Pau, Nantes and Orleans were a taste of what was to come in Paris today, where a huge rally will be held for national unity, to be attended by President Francois Hollande and two dozen world leaders including Germany’s Angela Merkel, Britain’s David Cameron and Italy’s Matteo Renzi. Arab League representatives and some Muslim African leaders as well as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will also attend.
The defence ministry said it was sending another 500 soldiers into the greater Paris area, bringing the total to some 1,350 troops.
After Friday’s dramatic events, Mr Hollande warned grimly that the threats facing France “weren’t over”, comments followed by a chilling new threat from a Yemenbased al-Qaeda group.
“It’s no longer like before,” said Maria Pinto, on a street in central Paris. “You work a whole life through and because of these madmen, you leave your house to go shopping, go to work, and you don’t know if you’ll come home.”
Speaking yesterday, Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister said: “Terrorism tried to create splits and damage us. Tomorrow we have to give the best response we can possibly give. Tomorrow’s rally will be a cry for freedom.”
After an emergency cabinet meeting yesterday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: “French people need to know that all measures will be taken for this demonstration to be held in a spirit of mourning and respect, and in full security. Given the context, we remain at risk and we will maintain the highest level of security in comings weeks.”
Mr Cazeneuve said the government is maintaining its terror alert system at the highest level in the Paris region, and said investigators are focusing on determining whether the attackers were part of a larger extremist network.
Five other people are in custody as part of the investigation, and family members of the attackers are among several given preliminary charges so far.
Dramatic tales of survival have emerged after twin hostage dramas in and around Paris on Friday night, with hostages hiding beneath a sink and in a refrigerator while communicating secretly with police.
At the printing business in Dammartinen-Goele, northeast of Paris, besieged by the brothers believed to have carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre, one employee took refuge “under a sink in the canteen” upstairs, prosecutor Francois Molins said.
The employee — a 26-year-old graphic designer named Lilian, according to a source close to the investigation — was “terrified”, Mr Molins said.
But, overcoming his fear as he remained undetected, he began communicating with police outside via text message, sending them “tactical elements such as his location inside the premises”, a source said.
He could hear the suspects talking, which both helped reassure him and gave him more information to send to the forces poised outside, the source said. Cherif and Said Kouachi — who had been on the run following the slaughter of 12 people at the weekly magazine’s offices in Paris on Wednesday — had been cornered there after a firefight with police which Mr Molins said left Said with a minor neck wound. They had a hefty cache of arms including Molotov cocktails and a loaded rocket launcher.
The brothers had taken the store manager hostage, but later released him after he helped Said with his wound as the second man hid upstairs, Mr Molins said. Another source said the hidden employee was also able to communicate with a family member via text.
As police launched their assault on the printing works, an armoured car gave them access to the upper floor to free the hidden employee, a source said. Police shot dead the two gunmen as they came out of the store firing.
The employee, unharmed, was taken to police headquarters, where he was quickly reunited with his family, another source close to the case said, adding that the young man was “shocked” but “OK”.
Some 40km away, shortly before 1pm, a father called Ilan and his three-year-old son were at a kosher supermarket in Vincennes, eastern Paris, when Amedy Coulibaly, 32, believed to be an ally of the Kouachi brothers, burst into the store and pulled out a Kalashnikov. He killed four shoppers — identified as Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen and Francois-Michel Saada — taking others hostage and lined the place with explosives and threatened to kill the shoppers at his mercy. The father and son quickly hid in the supermarket’s refrigeration unit, two relatives said. At least three other people were with them, according to sources close to the investigation.
Ilan, in his thirties, quickly removed his jacket and wrapped his son in it to protect the toddler from the frigid temperatures. Hidden in the cold, they and the other hostages remained in the refrigerator for nearly five hours.
Ilan’s mother realised quickly that her son and grandson were hidden and decided not to try to contact them, even by text. Instead she gave Ilan’s mobile phone number to law enforcement, who were able to use it to track the location of the man, his son and the other hostages inside the store. This knowledge, according to the prosecutor, may have contributed to their survival.
Coulibaly was killed when forces moved in on the supermarket as he had knelt to do his evening prayer.
BFMTV revealed police were able to exploit a lapse in his defences as he had not hung up his phone after speaking to one of their reporters.
Fears remained acute and security levels were kept at France’s highest level as Hayat Boumeddiene, the girlfriend of one of three gunmen killed in a fiery climax to twin hostage dramas on Friday, remained on the loose.
But refusing to be cowed, people poured onto the streets in cities around France in poignantly silent marches yesterday paying tribute to those killed in the nation’s bloodiest week in more than half a century.
The marches in the cities of Nice, Pau, Nantes and Orleans were a taste of what was to come in Paris today, where a huge rally will be held for national unity, to be attended by President Francois Hollande and two dozen world leaders including Germany’s Angela Merkel, Britain’s David Cameron and Italy’s Matteo Renzi. Arab League representatives and some Muslim African leaders as well as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will also attend.
The defence ministry said it was sending another 500 soldiers into the greater Paris area, bringing the total to some 1,350 troops.
After Friday’s dramatic events, Mr Hollande warned grimly that the threats facing France “weren’t over”, comments followed by a chilling new threat from a Yemenbased al-Qaeda group.
“It’s no longer like before,” said Maria Pinto, on a street in central Paris. “You work a whole life through and because of these madmen, you leave your house to go shopping, go to work, and you don’t know if you’ll come home.”
Speaking yesterday, Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister said: “Terrorism tried to create splits and damage us. Tomorrow we have to give the best response we can possibly give. Tomorrow’s rally will be a cry for freedom.”
After an emergency cabinet meeting yesterday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: “French people need to know that all measures will be taken for this demonstration to be held in a spirit of mourning and respect, and in full security. Given the context, we remain at risk and we will maintain the highest level of security in comings weeks.”
Mr Cazeneuve said the government is maintaining its terror alert system at the highest level in the Paris region, and said investigators are focusing on determining whether the attackers were part of a larger extremist network.
Five other people are in custody as part of the investigation, and family members of the attackers are among several given preliminary charges so far.
Dramatic tales of survival have emerged after twin hostage dramas in and around Paris on Friday night, with hostages hiding beneath a sink and in a refrigerator while communicating secretly with police.
At the printing business in Dammartinen-Goele, northeast of Paris, besieged by the brothers believed to have carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre, one employee took refuge “under a sink in the canteen” upstairs, prosecutor Francois Molins said.
The employee — a 26-year-old graphic designer named Lilian, according to a source close to the investigation — was “terrified”, Mr Molins said.
But, overcoming his fear as he remained undetected, he began communicating with police outside via text message, sending them “tactical elements such as his location inside the premises”, a source said.
He could hear the suspects talking, which both helped reassure him and gave him more information to send to the forces poised outside, the source said. Cherif and Said Kouachi — who had been on the run following the slaughter of 12 people at the weekly magazine’s offices in Paris on Wednesday — had been cornered there after a firefight with police which Mr Molins said left Said with a minor neck wound. They had a hefty cache of arms including Molotov cocktails and a loaded rocket launcher.
The brothers had taken the store manager hostage, but later released him after he helped Said with his wound as the second man hid upstairs, Mr Molins said. Another source said the hidden employee was also able to communicate with a family member via text.
As police launched their assault on the printing works, an armoured car gave them access to the upper floor to free the hidden employee, a source said. Police shot dead the two gunmen as they came out of the store firing.
The employee, unharmed, was taken to police headquarters, where he was quickly reunited with his family, another source close to the case said, adding that the young man was “shocked” but “OK”.
Some 40km away, shortly before 1pm, a father called Ilan and his three-year-old son were at a kosher supermarket in Vincennes, eastern Paris, when Amedy Coulibaly, 32, believed to be an ally of the Kouachi brothers, burst into the store and pulled out a Kalashnikov. He killed four shoppers — identified as Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen and Francois-Michel Saada — taking others hostage and lined the place with explosives and threatened to kill the shoppers at his mercy. The father and son quickly hid in the supermarket’s refrigeration unit, two relatives said. At least three other people were with them, according to sources close to the investigation.
Ilan, in his thirties, quickly removed his jacket and wrapped his son in it to protect the toddler from the frigid temperatures. Hidden in the cold, they and the other hostages remained in the refrigerator for nearly five hours.
Ilan’s mother realised quickly that her son and grandson were hidden and decided not to try to contact them, even by text. Instead she gave Ilan’s mobile phone number to law enforcement, who were able to use it to track the location of the man, his son and the other hostages inside the store. This knowledge, according to the prosecutor, may have contributed to their survival.
Coulibaly was killed when forces moved in on the supermarket as he had knelt to do his evening prayer.
BFMTV revealed police were able to exploit a lapse in his defences as he had not hung up his phone after speaking to one of their reporters.
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