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The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
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Charlie Hebdo shooting
2015 terrorist attack in Paris, France
On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi. Armed with rifles and other…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Paris
Capital and largest city of France
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Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege
2015 Islamist terrorist attack in Paris
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Vincennes
Commune in Île-de-France, France
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