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French police said Friday they have successfully concluded the two hostage situations following the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
The first incident Friday, in Dammartin-En-Goele near the Charles de Gaulle airport outside of Paris, concluded with the killing of the two Charlie Hebdo suspects, according to Le Monde newspaper.
The two brothers — Cherif and Said Kouachi — were cornered inside a printing house after taking a hostage, police sources said. They also told negotiators they “want to die as martyrs,” according to the New York Times.
According to AFP, the suspects came out firing on security forces before being killed. The hostage they took has been freed.


Simultaneously, at least 10 hostages were freed from a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris, Alliance Police Union spokesman Pascal Disand told CNN — a number that has not yet been confirmed.
At least four were killed at the grocery, including Amedy Coulibaly, one of the hostage takers, police sources said, according to the Associated Press.
Coulibaly is one of two people wanted in Thursday’s fatal shooting of a policewoman south of Paris and is allegedly connected to the Kouachi brothers. His co-assailant, Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, escaped during the conclusion of the grocery siege as hostages ran away, Disand told CNN.
One of the hostage-takers in the grocery store demanded freedom for the Kouachi brothers in return for the safety of the hostages, witnesses said, according to CNN.
Some police were also injured in the operation.
French President François Hollande is expected to speak on the situations at 2 p.m. ET.
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FRENCH SIEGES COME TO BLOODY END: Charlie Hebdo assassins shot dead as they attack commandos… then third hostage taker is killed as armed officers storm Paris grocery store

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903042/Charlie-Hebdo-assassins-shot-dead-Paris-hostage-taker-commandos-kill-three-terrorists.html

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