Hostage-taking at the Porte de Vincennes

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The hostage-taking at the Porte de Vincennes was an Islamist-motivated terrorist attack that was carried out on January 9, 2015 in Paris on a supermarket for kosher goods near the Porte de Vincennes metro station . The assassin Amedy Coulibaly murdered four Jews and took others hostage . The perpetrator confessed to the organization " Islamic State " by telephone and said his actions were connected to the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo two days earlier, the perpetrators of which were still fleeting at the time of Coulibaly's hostage situation. He was shot dead by the police when they stormed the supermarket.

To protest against the terrorist attacks, funeral marches (“March of the Republic”) took place on January 10th and 11th, 2015, followed by a ceremony in the Great Synagogue in Paris on January 11th, 2015 and a funeral on January 13th, 2015 in Israel.

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Lassana Bathily, who hid several Jewish hostages

On January 9, 2015, Coulibaly, who the day before had shot and killed the 26-year-old city policeman Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge , attacked a kosher supermarket at about 1 p.m. at Porte de Vincennes in the east of Paris ( location coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 49 , 3 ″  N , 2 ° 24 ′ 55.6 ″  E ) and took several hostages. Coulibaly demanded free travel for the Charlie Hebdo assassins Saïd and Chérif Kouachi , who were holed up in a printing works in Dammartin-en-Goële at the same time after a two-day escape . During a police operation, Coulibaly threatened to kill the hostages. Some of them could call their loved ones; The special units received their telephone numbers from these and were able to receive information about the armament of Coulibaly by means of callbacks and to issue rules of conduct in the event of a storm.

In a telephone conversation with the TV broadcaster BFM TV , Coulibaly said that he had “agreed with the Kouachi brothers to start these operations”; he fights for the organization IS (Islamic State). Coulibaly also confessed to his actions and the agreement in a video that appeared afterwards. He also stated that he specifically selected this supermarket “because of the Jews” and killed four people. After an attempted call, the broadcaster RTL was able to overhear Coulibaly discussing with some hostages and justifying his actions in retaliation for the intervention in Mali and the fight against IS in the Syrian civil war: If one had not attacked the Muslims abroad, he would be a Born in France, not here now.

Shortly after the exchange of fire began in Dammartin-en-Goële, the Paris supermarket was stormed; Coulibaly was killed while being accessed by the BRI and RAID around 5 p.m. He shot around with a Kalashnikov and a Scorpion submachine gun. In the supermarket still two found Tokarev pistols and explosives about fifteen rods and four detonating devices , as booby traps were prepared. Three policemen, but no hostages, were injured in the storm. For a short time it was assumed that Coulibaly's partner Hayat Boumeddiene was involved in the supermarket attack; later, evidence emerged that she had flown from Madrid to Istanbul on January 2nd . According to the signal on her cell phone, on the day of the attack, she crossed the border with Syria into an area controlled by IS.

The Mali- born Muslim Lassana Bathily (born June 27, 1990 in Kayes ), an employee of the business who was subsequently honored for his services and rewarded with French citizenship, led several Jews down a spiral staircase to the basement during the hostage-taking there were two cold rooms. Bathily turned off the cooling system and was able to place a group of six people, including a baby, in one of the two cold rooms, where they were safe from the hostage taker's access for over four hours. This was particularly possible because this cold room could be locked from the inside. However, other hostages who had tried to hide in a second refrigerator were discovered by Coulibaly. This was due to the fact that the second cold room could not be locked from the inside. These hostages were forced to go upstairs and place themselves under the control of the hostage taker.

The four killed were French Jewish: Yohan Cohen (22, supermarket employee), Yoav Hattab (21, electrician), Philippe Braham (45, IT consultant and teacher) and François-Michel Saada (64, retired manager). They were murdered before the police could access them. Cohen and Hattab had been shot trying to steal one of his weapons from the perpetrator.

Reactions

Republic marches

10th and 11th January 2015: marches républicaines : “Je suis Hyper Cacher” (“I am Hyper Cacher”) and “Je suis Juif” (“I am a Jew”).

On January 10th and 11th, 2015, more than four million people demonstrated against the terrorist attacks of January 7th and 9th in Paris during the marches of the republic ( French marches républicaines ). More than 50 high-ranking politicians, including 44 heads of state and government, from abroad took part in the funeral march in Paris on January 11th. During the demonstrations, people carried signs with inscriptions such as Je suis Hyper Cacher (“I am Hyper Cacher”) and Je suis Juif (“I am a Jew”), based on the slogan Je suis Charlie after the attack on the satirical magazine's editors.

Ceremony in the Great Synagogue in Paris

After the marches of the republic , a ceremony was held in the Paris Great Synagogue on Sunday, January 11, 2015, to commemorate the murdered Jews . Here, received Roger Cukierman President of the French umbrella organization of Jewish organizations - CRIF and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress - the President of the French Republic François Hollande , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls , the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve , the French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira , the presidents of the two chambers of parliament, Claude Bartolone ( National Assembly ) and Gérard Larcher ( Senate ), the Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the former President Nicolas Sarkozy .

Psalms were recited , followed by the President of the Consistoire central Israelite , Joël Mergui , and then the Chief Rabbi of France Haïm Corsia .

Burial on the Har HaMenuchot

January 13, 2015: Burial at Har HaMenuchot

The four Jewish victims were on January 13, 2015 the Jerusalem Cemetery Har HaMenuchot ( Hebrew הר המנוחות) to bury.

Thousands of people attended the funeral. Many carried signs with inscriptions such as “Je suis Juif” or “Je suis Israélien” and photos of the four murdered people. Many politicians were also present at the funeral, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and French Environment Minister Ségolène Royal .

According to Renée Ghert-Zand, Rivlin asked the world for help against the "rabid anti - Semitic agitation". Rivlin once again called on the Jews of France to immigrate to a country that was safer than France. Netanyahu said that Jews have the right to live safely in many countries. But only Israel can guarantee real security.

Ségolène Royal posthumously awarded the victims the Order of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic and declared: “Anti-Semitism has no place in France. I want to assure you that the French government will act consistently and decisively against all forms of anti-Semitism in France. "

More reactions

John Kerry and Laurent Fabius lay wreaths in front of the Jewish supermarket in Paris.
John Kerry and Laurent Fabius , January 16, 2015

President François Hollande described the attack as “a terrifying act of anti-Semitism .” Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman issued a statement saying that the attack “is not only directed against the French people or French Jews, but against the entire free world . This is another attempt by the dark forces of radical Islam to unleash the horror and terror in the West. The entire international community must stand strong and determined in the face of terrorism. ” Hamas officially condemned the attack on Charlie Hebdo, but silently approved the attack on the Jewish supermarket Hyper Cacher . The Al-Rasalah Facebook page praised the attack. According to Arutz Sheva , the Facebook page can be assigned to Hamas.

The French comedian and political activist Dieudonné compared himself to Coulibaly on Facebook and said: “I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.” He was arrested and interrogated by the French police. In addition, the Paris public prosecutor initiated an investigation against Dieudonné for “defense of terrorism”. In this context, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls noted that "racism, anti-Semitism and terror apologetics are crimes". He added that anti-Semitism is not covered by freedom of expression. In an interview, US President Barack Obama expressed deep concern about “a number of violent and vicious fanatics who behead people or arbitrarily shoot people in a grocery store in Paris.” Various politicians placed wreaths in front of the Jewish supermarket. January US Secretary of State John Kerry in the presence of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. On January 20, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio , accompanied by Anne Hidalgo, laid a wreath there.

See also

Web links

Commons : Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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