Contemporary era · 2015

Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege

On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, entered and attacked a Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in Paris, France. There, Coulibaly murdered four Jewish hostages and held fifteen other hostages during a siege in which he demanded that the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Kouachi brothers, not be harmed.

Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege
Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege · U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
9 Jan 2015
Where
Vincennes gate hyper-cacher
Era
Contemporary

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