Filled Under:

Anatomy of a standoff: How the French hostage crises went down



Second-shooting-hostages-paris-01

On Friday, French security forces killed the two brothers — Cherif and Said Kouachi — suspected of murdering 12 people in an attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The suspects were killed after an hours-long standoff with police near the Charles de Gaulle Airport.


Meanwhile in Paris, a third gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, was killed by police at a kosher supermarket after taking several people hostage. Four people were killed



The standoffs began after an extensive manhunt, following the attack on the magazine Wednesday. Read more...


More about France, Paris, Us World, World, and U.S. World Source: Mashable http://ift.tt/1AyWC0H Show Full Story