Porte de Vincennes siege
| Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis | |
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| Part of the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks | |
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Flowers and a French Flag outside the Hypercacher Jewish Market
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| Location | Hypercacher kosher superette in Porte de Vincennes, Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48°50′49″N 2°24′55″E / 48.846963°N 2.415386°ECoordinates: 48°50′49″N 2°24′55″E / 48.846963°N 2.415386°E |
| Date | 9 January 2015 13:00 CET –9 January 2015 17:30 CET (UTC+01:00) |
| Target | Jewish superette patrons |
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Attack type
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Hostage taking, terrorism |
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| Deaths | 5 (including the perpetrator) |
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Non-fatal injuries
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9 |
| Perpetrators | Islamic State |
The Porte de Vincennes siege occurred at a Hypercacher kosher superette in Porte de Vincennes (20th arrondissement of Paris) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting two days earlier, and concurrently with the Dammartin-en-Goële hostage crisis in which the two Charlie Hebdo gunmen were cornered.
Amedy Coulibaly had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and was a close friend of Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi (whom he had met in jail in 2005), the gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo attack. Armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, he entered and attacked the people in the kosher food superette. Coulibaly murdered four Jewish hostages, and held fifteen other hostages during a siege in which he demanded that the Kouachi brothers not be harmed. The police ended the siege by storming the store and killing Coulibaly.
On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, attacked the people in a Hypercacher kosher food superette at Porte de Vincennes in east Paris. He killed four people, all of whom were Jews, and took several hostages. Some media outlets claimed he had a female accomplice, speculated initially to be his common-law wife, Hayat Boumeddiene.
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