France Wakes Up to Two Hostage Situations:
THE WAKEUP: France wakes up this morning to a better
understanding of the shooters who massacred twelve in the attack on the Charlie
Hebdo magazine offices. Whereas the
information reported yesterday was soft in spots, several things have now
become clear.
HOSTAGE STANDOFF: At this moment, there are two active French
Police vs. Terrorist standoffs. One is occurring in an eastern suburb of Paris
called Port Vincennes. The terrorist in
this case has taken over a Kosher supermarket and is said to be holding an
unknown number of hostages, as few as one or as many as five. Police have surrounded and blocked off the
area. The number of hostages in the supermarket is not clear. The terrorist in
this case is quite possibly to be the third member of a 3-man assault team
which conducted the original attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices.
STANDOFF WITH KOUACHI
BROTHERS is close is near to Paris and near to one of the Paris airports—in
the industrial town of Dammartin-en-Goele. The Kouachi brothers are
reported to be holding one hostage.
HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS
are going on in both cases. It is being reported that TWO ARE DEAD at the
KOSHER GROCERY MARKET.
Writer’s Note: As I
am an amateur blogger, compiling the news from mainstream media sources, I’m
wondering about my theory that the Kouachi brothers were heading toward the
French border with Belgium. It’s quite
possible that this speculation was completely wrong, but it’s also possible that
the brothers were blocked en route (they were heading northeast. In fact, all
key locations are in the direction of northeast—the direction of Belgium).
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