French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says: "The nation is relieved tonight."

France: Raids kill 3 suspects, including 2 wanted in Charlie Hebdo attack
By Greg Botelho, CNN
Updated 2022 GMT (0422 HKT) January 9, 2015


Three terrorists killed; one on the run 02:04
Story highlights
Four hostages killed, Israeli sources tell CNN after call between French, Israeli leaders
Hostage situation at grocery store ends with 4 killed, says French President
French forces kill the 2 brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo attack
(CNN)A pair of dramatic raids Friday in France led to the killing of three terrorists -- one suspected in the fatal shooting of a policewoman, the other two in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine -- and to the freeing of at least some of those they were holding hostage.

The French government's work is not over. There's still a lot of healing to do, a lot of questions to answer about how to prevent future attacks, and the fact that a woman wanted in the policewoman's shooting remains at large.


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Still, as Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, "The nation is relieved tonight."

Latest updates at 3:15 p.m. ET

• Four hostages were killed and 15 survived in the standoff between an armed terrorist and police at a Paris kosher grocery store on Friday, according to Israeli government sources who characterized a phone conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President François Hollande.

• U.S. President Barack Obama said he wants the people of France to know that the United States "stands with you today, stands with you tomorrow" after this week's terror. He told a crowd in Tennessee that "we stand for freedom and hope and dignity of all human beings, (and) that's what Paris stands for."

• The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin to law enforcement across the United States discussing the Paris terrorist attack this week and the sophistication of the tactics, a U.S. law enforcement source tells CNN.

• A man claiming to be Amedy Coulibaly, the suspected hostage-taker at the eastern Paris grocery store, told CNN affiliate BFMTV that he belonged to the Islamist militant group ISIS. CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the recording.


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• Three of the four suspects in a pair of deadly terror attacks this week have been killed. The other -- 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene -- remains at large, with French authorities working to find her.

Charlie Hebdo attackers holed up in print shop

The day's drama began in Dammartin-en-Goele, where brother Cherif and Said Kouachi ended up in a print shop in an industrial area.

A salesman, who identified himself only as Didier, told France Info radio that he shook one of the gunman's hands around 8:30 a.m. Friday as they arrived at the business. Didier told the public radio station that he first thought the man, who was dressed in black and heavily armed, was a police officer.

As he left, the armed man said, "Go, we don't kill civilians." Didier said, "It wasn't normal. I did not know what was going on."

What was going on, very soon, was a hostage situation.


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