The two Kouachi brothers, suspected of being responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre, have barricaded themselves in a small printing house in Dammartin en Goele, about forty kilometers north-east of Paris. The police hunted them down after a night-time escape into the woods, a car chase and a violent shootout. The suspects took one or two hostages, among them 27-year-old Michel Catalano, head of the small family business, which has just five employees. Negotiations are underway and law enforcement's priority is to capture the two men alive.
Meanwhile, more blood has spilled on the streets of Paris. The death toll from the new shooting at Porte de Vincennes, in the east of the French capital, would be at least two dead. According to the AFP agency, a man armed with two Kalashinkovs, probably the same one who killed a policewoman yesterday, barricaded himself with at least five hostages in a kosher grocery store after the shooting. Identified, he is part of the Kouachi brothers' jihadist cell. His name is Amedy Coulibaly, a 32-year-old of African origins who in 2010 was linked to the escape project of Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, an Algerian terrorist sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1995 attacks.
