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Hunt For Supermarket Gunman's Girlfriend

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 10 Januari 2015 | 18.46

Police are hunting for the girlfriend of one of the three gunmen who brought three days of terror to France, saying she may be "armed and dangerous".

Hayat Boumeddiene, a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday, is on the run after her partner Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end.

The 26-year-old could hold the key to the ongoing terror investigation, as police admit they may be dealing with a larger extremist cell and authorities brace for more attacks.

Details are emerging of the young woman of Algerian descent and the links between Coulibaly, 32, and the Kouachi brothers, who were killed two days after murdering 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

Boumeddiene reportedly started wearing a burka in May 2009 after meeting Coulibaly and quit her job as a cashier.

Later that year, they were married in a religious ceremony but were not wed under French law which requires a civil ceremony.

According to French judicial documents, the couple travelled with Cherif Kouachi and his wife in 2010 to central France to visit radical Islamist Djamel Beghal, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for terror offences.

The pair posed for photos during the visit, taking selfies and a snap of Boumeddiene pointing a crossbow at the camera.

Interviewed that year by counter-terrorism officers over Coulibaly's involvement in an attempt to free Paris bomber Smain Ait Ali Belkacem from jail, she was open about her fanatical views.

According to Le Nouvel Observateur, she refused to condemn al Qaeda attacks, preferring to criticise America's military interventions around the world and the Western media.

The links between the couple and the Kouachis apparently thrived, with Paris prosecutor Francois Molins revealing Boumeddiene and the wife of one of the brothers exchanged more than 500 phone calls in 2014.

A police search of Coulibaly's residence in 2010 turned up a crossbow, 240 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, films and photos of him during a trip to Malaysia, and letters seeking false official documents.

In a police interview that same year, Coulibaly identified Cherif Kouachi as a friend he had met in prison and said they saw each other frequently, according to a transcript of the interview obtained by the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

According to the newspaper, he told the police that people he met in prison used the nickname "Dolly" for him.

He was employed as a temp worker at a Coca-Cola factory and reportedly met then-President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009.

"I know a lot of criminals because I met heaps of them in detention," he is quoted as telling the police.

Michel Thooris, secretary-general of France's police union, said he did not believe the men behind the Paris attacks were "three people isolated in their little world."

"This could very well be a little cell," he said.

"There are probably more than three people," he added, given that Cherif Kouachi and Coulibaly had had contacts with other jihadist groups in the past.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, speaking in a TV interview late on Friday, also indicated authorities are bracing for the possibility of new attacks.

"We are facing a major challenge" and "very determined individuals," he said.

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Survivor Hid Under Sink And Helped Police

Survivor Hid Under Sink And Helped Police

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    Two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris have been killed. They had earlier taken one person hostage as police cornered the gunmen in the area, northeast of Paris

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Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

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By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, in Dammartin-en-Goele

Al Qaeda has threatened France with more terror attacks after 17 people were killed at Charlie Hebdo's offices and at a Jewish supermarket.

The warning came as President Francois Hollande admitted the threats "weren't over" and police hunting a female suspect suggested there could be a larger terrorist cell planning further atrocities.  

A sharia official from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Harith al Nadhari, said in a video: "It is better for you to stop your aggression against the Muslims, so perhaps you will live safely.

"If you refuse but to wage war, then wait for the glad tiding." 

AQAP has claimed it directed brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in the attack on Charlie Hebdo "as revenge for the honour" of the Prophet Mohammed.

The gunman killed by police at a kosher supermarket in Paris has told how he "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State (IS) group.

Amedy Coulibaly's call to France's BFMTV station emerged after gunfire and explosions marked the violent conclusion to two hostage-takings 30 miles (48km) apart.

Just minutes separated the series of blasts at the Paris store and those that destroyed a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the Kouachi brothers were holed up.

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    Commandos stormed the kosher supermarket where a gunman had taken at least six people hostage. Pic: Vantage News

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Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

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By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, in Dammartin-en-Goele

Al Qaeda has threatened France with more terror attacks after 17 people were killed at Charlie Hebdo's offices and at a Jewish supermarket.

The warning came as President Francois Hollande admitted the threats "weren't over" and police hunting a female suspect suggested there could be a larger terrorist cell planning further atrocities.  

A sharia official from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Harith al Nadhari, said in a video: "It is better for you to stop your aggression against the Muslims, so perhaps you will live safely.

"If you refuse but to wage war, then wait for the glad tiding." 

AQAP has claimed it directed brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in the attack on Charlie Hebdo "as revenge for the honour" of the Prophet Mohammed.

The gunman killed by police at a kosher supermarket in Paris has told how he "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State (IS) group.

Amedy Coulibaly's call to France's BFMTV station emerged after gunfire and explosions marked the violent conclusion to two hostage-takings 30 miles (48km) apart.

Just minutes separated the series of blasts at the Paris store and those that destroyed a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the Kouachi brothers were holed up.

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    Commandos stormed the kosher supermarket where a gunman had taken at least six people hostage. Pic: Vantage News

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Expert Insight Into Hostage Negotiations

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 09 Januari 2015 | 18.46

A hostage negotiation expert has given an insight into how French authorities will be tackling the situation in Dammartin-en-Goele.

Dr James Alvarez, who has worked as a consultant for Scotland Yard and the New York Police Department, said that negotiators would be concerned with the lives of hostages - not the lives or freedom of the terrorists.

He told Sky News: "It is not likely at all that the French authorities will negotiate for the freedom of these guys. They will certainly negotiate for the life of the hostage.

"It seems likely that the French authorities will be less inclined to negotiate with them because of the very real risk they pose of hurting the hostages. I would be very surprised if there wasn't a rescue operation being planned as we speak.

"Even though these guys are a bunch of savages, the negotiators are going to be trying to calm things down...the less volatile things are, the safer it is for everybody."

He was speaking as French security services swarmed Dammartin-en-Goele, a small industrial town northeast of Paris Friday in an operation to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of a satirical newspaper.

The brothers stole a car in the early morning hours in the town, about 40km (25 miles) northeast of Paris.

French authorities are reported to have begun negotiating with Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, after news they are holding a hostage, just days after their attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday that left 12 people dead.

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    Two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris have taken one person hostage as police cornered the gunmen in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris

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Paris Terror Suspects Cornered After Car Chase

The Paris terror suspects are holed up at an industrial building near Charles de Gaulle airport with a hostage, and have told police they are ready to "die as martyrs".

One of the "heavily armed" Kouachi brothers turned up at the printing factory wearing black combat gear and a bulletproof vest and claimed to be a police officer. He then told a worker: "Get out of here, we don't kill civilians."

Helicopters are hovering overhead and armed police officers have flooded the area, surrounding Said and Cherif Kouachi. An army tank has been spotted nearby.

Local residents are being told to stay at home, switch off the lights, and stay away from their windows. Hundreds of people are sealed inside some local office buildings.

There have been reports that two people have been killed, but Paris prosecutors insist there have been no deaths.

Police are now negotiating by phone with the two suspects, whose hostage is understood to be a woman.

At least two planes have aborted landing attempts at the airport as the situation unfolds.

Sky's Robert Nisbet said the operation is complex and the police are moving at a deliberately slow pace.

"What we are sensing here is no panic, they are taking this very slowly indeed. This operation is complex, this is not something they want to rush."

The stand-off follows a car chase on the N2 motorway earlier in which gunshots were fired between the men and police as their stolen car headed towards Paris.

Three helicopters have been hovering near the building in Dammartin-en-Goele, close to the country's busiest airport.

A close-up image of one of the helicopters shows armed police sitting at the vehicle's open door with heavy weaponry ready.

France's interior minister has confirmed that an operation to detain the suspects is under way.

In a televised statement Bernard Cazeneuve said: "An operation is under way which is set to neutralise the perpetrators of the cowardly attack carried out two days ago."

Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "Police seem to have the situation under control and appear to be in contact - or trying to get into contact - with the two men."

Armed police are ordering members of the media to leave the area, saying the situation is too dangerous.

The brothers' grey Peugot 206 was hijacked from a woman in the town of Montagny Sainte Felicite this morning between Crepy-en-Valois and Nanteuil-le-Haudoin.

Almost 90,000 terror police across France are involved in the hunt for the men, believed to be behind Wednesday's terror attack on the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people died.

They then fled the city and are believed to have hid overnight in an area to the northeast of the capital.

Police say the attack is now being linked to a second incident on Thursday in which a policewoman was shot dead and a council worker seriously injured.

The suspect is a known associate of Cherif, French media claims.

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Policewoman Shooting Linked With Paris Attack

French police are now linking the shooting of a female officer on Thursday with the brothers suspected of the Charlie Hebdo attack, according to AFP.

Police had not previously linked the murders of 12 people on Wednesday morning to Thursday's shooting in Montrouge.

But they are now reportedly saying initial investigations have revealed a "connection" between the suspects.

Earller it was reported a suspect has been identified in the policewoman shooting and that two people in his immediate circle had been into custody.

The shooting happened after police and maintenance workers were called to the scene of a traffic accident involving a grey Renault Clio.

Police say the gunman was wearing a bullet-proof vest and was carrying a pistol and an automatic rifle.

He opened fire and killed the trainee policewoman, thought to be Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 25. A street sweeper was seriously injured.

Witness Ahmed Sassi, 38, who was watching from his kitchen window, said "panic" broke out.

He said he saw "a police officer standing in the road. A man with dark clothes shot them at point blank range, while continuing to run."

The shooting is being treated as a "terrorist act" by the French authorities.

Security forces detained a man soon afterwards, although police said he was not the shooter.

They then raided a nearby hotel but the operation was unsuccessful.

The attack came just hours before a minute's silence was held across France in honour of the Charlie Hebdo victims.

Police are hunting two men in connection with the magazine atrocity, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi.


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Live Updates: Shooting At Paris Magazine

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 07 Januari 2015 | 18.46

Live Updates: Shooting At Paris Magazine

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Paris Magazine Shooting Kills 11 People

Eleven people have been shot dead at the headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, prosecutors confirm.

Two masked gunmen are reported to have stormed the offices of the controversial publication, which has previously been attacked over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.

They are believed to have been armed with Kalashnikov rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade.

A manhunt is under for the killers, who escaped after a shootout in the street with police.

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Anti-Religion Newspaper Has Always Provoked

Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine attacked in Paris has been targeted over its content before.

In the early hours of November 2, 2011, the paper's office was fire-bombed shortly after an issue featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in which the religious figure was listed as "editor-in-chief".

The provocative move was not unusual for the publication, which has been poking fun at politics and religion for decades.

It was banned a year after its 1969 launch by the Minister of the Interior after mocking the media coverage of the death of former French president Charles de Gaulle.

But the paper, then known as Hara-Kiri Hebdo, changed its name to sidestep the ban.

It folded in 1981 but was reborn amid much fanfare in 1992, with the first edition selling 100,000 copies.

In 2006 the paper's front page showed a cartoon of a weeping Prophet Mohammed, and the resulting controversy boosted sales by around 60,000 copies.

The then French President, Jacques Chirac, warned that "overt provocations" to other religions should be avoided.

But it isn't just Islam that the paper has targeted.

In 2008 accusations of anti-Semitism were laid against a veteran cartoonist who was later sacked.

In September 2012, in the aftermath of attacks on US embassies in the Middle East, it published more satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

As a result, security was beefed up at several French embassies, while riot police surrounded the paper's offices to protect it.


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Father's Perilous Missions To Save Syria Jihadis

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 06 Januari 2015 | 18.46

Father's Perilous Missions To Save Syria Jihadis

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By Mark White, Home Affairs Correspondent

A father who rescued his own jihadi son from the clutches of Syrian rebels is now travelling back to the country to track down other young foreign fighters.

Dimitri Bontinck risked his life on a perilous 10-month quest to find his teenage son, travelling to Syria three times before the pair were eventually reunited in late 2013.

Despite the continuing danger, the former Belgian soldier is now helping other families, including some from the UK, in the search for their loved ones in the war-torn country.

Mr Bontinck told Sky News: "I have no other choice than to help those going through the same kind of trauma and nightmare I experienced."

He claims the Belgian, British and many other western governments are adding to that trauma by refusing to help in the search for those who have gone to Syria and Iraq - and for criminalising those who return from the region.

"It's so sad that parents like me and so many thousands of parents worldwide are standing alone, that nobody's helping them. It's disgusting really, it's selfish," he said.

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    Aleppo has been one of the cities at the centre of Syria's civil war since it began in early 2011. Here a man carries a wounded girl after an airstrike by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad

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Father's Perilous Missions To Save Syria Jihadis

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By Mark White, Home Affairs Correspondent

A father who rescued his own jihadi son from the clutches of Syrian rebels is now travelling back to the country to track down other young foreign fighters.

Dimitri Bontinck risked his life on a perilous 10-month quest to find his teenage son, travelling to Syria three times before the pair were eventually reunited in late 2013.

Despite the continuing danger, the former Belgian soldier is now helping other families, including some from the UK, in the search for their loved ones in the war-torn country.

Mr Bontinck told Sky News: "I have no other choice than to help those going through the same kind of trauma and nightmare I experienced."

He claims the Belgian, British and many other western governments are adding to that trauma by refusing to help in the search for those who have gone to Syria and Iraq - and for criminalising those who return from the region.

"It's so sad that parents like me and so many thousands of parents worldwide are standing alone, that nobody's helping them. It's disgusting really, it's selfish," he said.

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    Aleppo has been one of the cities at the centre of Syria's civil war since it began in early 2011. Here a man carries a wounded girl after an airstrike by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad

A bus blocks a road amid damage on the Salah Al-Din neighbourhood frontline

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People walk amid the rubble of collapsed buildings at a site hit during a barrel bomb attack by Assad forces in the Al-Fardous neighbourhood

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Members of the Civil Defence rescue children after an airstrike in the al-Shaar neighbourhood

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A fighter from the Tawhid Brigade, which operates under the Free Syrian Army, fires an anti-tank missile at Assad forces

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German Anti-Islam Rally Hits Record Number

German Anti-Islam Rally Hits Record Number

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Around 18,000 people have taken part in an anti-Islam rally in the German city of Dresden despite a plea by Chancellor Angela Merkel to reject the growing protests, which she has branded racist.

While the demonstration was the biggest so far, similar far-right rallies held in other German cities have been met by much bigger counter-protests.

Lights around the country were switched off in protest at the anti-immigrant demonstrations - monuments in Dresden were thrown into darkness along with Cologne Cathedral and Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

The rapidly expanding grassroots movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) has unsettled the country's political establishment in recent months with its weekly rallies in Dresden.

The protests have continued to grow from an initial few hundred people in October.

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    Around 18,000 people have taken part in an anti-Islam rally in Dresden - the biggest turnout for the protests, which have become a weekly event in the German city

The demonstrations have continued to grow despite a plea by Chancellor Angela Merkel

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The grassroots movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) has unsettled the country's political establishment

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But similar anti-immigration rallies in Berlin and the western city of Cologne were heavily outnumbered by counter-protesters

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Protesters waved the German flag and brandished posters bearing slogans such as "Respect and tolerance for our people too" and "Against religious fanaticism"

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German Anti-Islam Rally Hits Record Number

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Around 18,000 people have taken part in an anti-Islam rally in the German city of Dresden despite a plea by Chancellor Angela Merkel to reject the growing protests, which she has branded racist.

While the demonstration was the biggest so far, similar far-right rallies held in other German cities have been met by much bigger counter-protests.

Lights around the country were switched off in protest at the anti-immigrant demonstrations - monuments in Dresden were thrown into darkness along with Cologne Cathedral and Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

The rapidly expanding grassroots movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) has unsettled the country's political establishment in recent months with its weekly rallies in Dresden.

The protests have continued to grow from an initial few hundred people in October.

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    Around 18,000 people have taken part in an anti-Islam rally in Dresden - the biggest turnout for the protests, which have become a weekly event in the German city

The demonstrations have continued to grow despite a plea by Chancellor Angela Merkel

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The grassroots movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) has unsettled the country's political establishment

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But similar anti-immigration rallies in Berlin and the western city of Cologne were heavily outnumbered by counter-protesters

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Protesters waved the German flag and brandished posters bearing slogans such as "Respect and tolerance for our people too" and "Against religious fanaticism"

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