Said and Chérif Kouachi escaped to the outskirts of Paris to warehouse while being surrounded by police, while in a parallel second terrorist attack in Paris, a man named Amedy Coulibaly (and, latter we learned, also a woman) took at least ten people as hostages in a Jewish supermarket in Paris. Four of the hostages died, as well as Coulibaly.
Yesterday, as the faces of Said and Chérif Kouachi were identified, reports indicated that their whereabouts where still unknown. At least one of them had a track record that linked him in a direct manner to the Islamic fighters from Syria and Iraq; a man who worked at a gas station put them under the radar after news of the attack spread, as they made a stop in his shop with the same vehicle they used to escape the scene of the attack on Wednesday.
With the intervention of the French Gendarmerie and over 88,000 agents from all of France included, today, they were able to locate them in a print shop in Dammartin-en-Goële,
[p]a warehouse northeast from the capital. Although they were killed by police after they launched themselves at thm, France remains under maximum level of anti-terrorist alert.
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Looking for Hayat Boumeddiene
Amedy Coulibaly's partner, 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, is on the run from authorities after it was determined she also took part in the attacks and possibly managed to escape in the chaos following the death of Coulibly and the hostage release.
With information from Reuters, Aristegui Noticias and La Opinión
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