UPDATED: 5:20 p.m. EST / 11:20 p.m. CET
The two brothers suspected of killing 12 people in the Charlie Hebdo attack are dead after an hours-long standoff with police near Charles de Gaulle Airport. Simultaneously, another gunman who took multiple hostages at a kosher market in eastern Paris was also killed in a police raid. Police are still searching for a fourth suspect.
The latest
The brothers wanted in the Charlie Hebdo attack, Chérif and Said Kouachi, were killed, but their hostage was freed at the printing house located near the airport.
French President Hollande confirmed that four hostages were killed when suspect entered the kosher market.
Police linked Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman holding hostages at the kosher market, to Thursday's shooting in which a policewoman was killed. Coulibaly also knew the Kouachi brothers and had reportedly demanded their release.
French police are seeking a fourth suspect, Hayat Boumeddiene.
The suspects
From left to right: Chérif Kouachi and Said Kouachi, the two men suspected of killing 12 in the Charlie Hebdo attack. Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene are named in connection with Thursday's Montrouge shooting of a policewoman. Coulibaly held hostages in the Paris kosher market; it's not known if Boumeddiene was there. She is still at large.
A member of al-Qaeda's offshoot branch in Yemen, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP, said on Friday that the group directed the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
What happened near the airport
In the early hours of Friday morning, Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two brothers wanted for killing 12 people in the Charlie Hebdo attack on Wednesday, stole a Peugeot amid gunfire in the town of Montagny Sainte Felicite, about 30 miles northeast of Paris.
Police cornered the brothers at a printing house near the Charles de Gaulle Airport, taking one hostage. Hundreds of French security forces backed by a convoy of ambulances streamed into the small industrial town northeast of Paris.
At least three helicopters hovered above the town of Dammartin-en-Goele as the police operation took place. Media were asked to avoid filming the scene of the incident and locations of the police involved.
Residents were instructed to stay in their homes. Children in the local primary schools were evacuated.
Police made contact with the suspects via phone. They reportedly refused to negotiate and said they wanted to by martyrs.
What happened at the kosher market
Meanwhile, in eastern Paris, a second standoff unfolded at a kosher market when a gunman took hostages, including women and children.
During the standoff, French officials confirmed that the gunman in the market was tied to Thursday's shooting of a policewoman in Paris. Police named Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene as the suspects in the Montrouge shooting. Coulibaly held hostages in the Paris kosher market; it's not known if Boumeddiene was there. She is still at large.
Police said Coulibaly was linked to the Charlie Hebdo suspects and that he threatened to kill the hostages if authorities stormed the building where the brothers were holed up.
The raids
French police simultaneously executed raids on the both market and the printing house. Journalists on the ground reported hearing loud gunfire and blasts coming from the buildings.
The moment police stormed the Kosher delicatessen in east #Paris pic.twitter.com/PUpqYoGYns— Harry Fear (@harryfear) January 9, 2015
Coulibaly and the brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo attacks were killed during the raids. Some hostages safely escaped, but four people were killed. According to the Paris prosecutor, the victims were killed "when the terrorists first entered the supermarket," based on the state of the bodies.
Mashable's Tim Chester, on the scene in Vincennes, posted video of emergency vehicles moving into the area near the kosher market.
French President Hollande addressed the nation on Friday evening, saying France would emerge from the horrific attacks "even stronger," after confirming that four hostages had been killed at a kosher market in Paris.
French President Hollande now speaking, confirms four killed today https://t.co/MCbu2kT3PE pic.twitter.com/9Wf7xxHV3p— Mashable News (@MashableNews) January 9, 2015
He described the attack on a kosher market in Paris as an "appalling anti-Semitic attack" and offered his condolences to families of the victims killed in the attack.
In closing Hollande said, "We emerge even stronger. Long live the Republic and long live France."
The French government issued a statement on Friday evening, pledging support to the families of victims of the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the subsequent attacks on Thursday and Friday. The state will provide resources "to support them in this ordeal and guide them through all the steps."
The official Twitter account of the French government also posted this photo, encouraging citizens to take part in a unity rally planned for Sunday.
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