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Scenes From France’s Hostage Standoffs (Photos)

French forces fanned out to two sites where gunmen are holding captives, as police narrow in on the two sets of attackers that have brought terror to Paris.

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A helicopter with French intervention forces hovers above the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goële, northeast of Paris. The two main suspects in the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo killings were sighted Friday in the northern French town where at least one person had been taken hostage, a police source said.

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French gendarme forces hover above the scene of the hostage taking in Dammartin-en-Goële on Friday.

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French President Francois Hollande (center) and Prime Minister Manuel Valls (2nd left) arrive to hold a crisis meeting with regional leaders at the Interior Ministry in Paris on Friday.

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Intervention forces arrive at the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the two main suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings had taken a print works staffer captive, according to police.

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Children wait inside the Henri Dunand school before being moved to a safe location to be picked up by their parents in Dammartin-en-Goële. French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the other an attack on a kosher market in Paris.

 

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Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes. According to reports, at least five people have been taken hostage in a kosher deli in the  Paris neighborhood.

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Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes, at the scene where officials say at least five people have been taken hostage in a kosher market.

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Members of the French police forces take position by the kosher grocery store in Saint-Mande, near Port de Vincennes, in eastern Paris, where at least one person was injured when a gunman opened fire at the kosher grocery store and took at least five people hostage, sources told AFP. The attacker was suspected of being the same gunman who killed a policewoman in a shooting in Montrouge in southern Paris on Thursday.

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Employees of the Council of Europe hold placards which read “I am Charlie” during a minute of silence in Strasbourg on Friday, two days after gunmen stormed weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

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