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Charlie Hebdo manhunt: police close in on suspects north-east of Paris









Suspected gunmen in Wednesday’s Charlie Hebdo massacre have gone to ground in Dammartin-en-Goele after shootout 
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Gendarmes assist the search for the Charlie Hebdo gunmen near an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele, on Friday. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters




Jon Henley in Paris


Friday 9 January 2015 05.31 EST







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A major police operation is under way on an industrial estate north-east of Paris where the two chief suspects in Wednesday’s Charlie Hebdo massacre have gone to ground in a small printing business after a brief shootout.
The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, confirmed the operation at Dammartin-en-Goele in the Seine-et-Marne département, where the gunmen were reportedly holding at least one hostage, AFP reported.
The Paris prosecutor’s office has denied reports in several French media that at least one person has been killed in a shootout, which took place at about 9am roughly half an hour’s drive from the area where the two suspects, brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, were thought to be hiding on Thursday night.
An interior ministry spokesman confirmed that shots had been exchanged at a roadblack on the RN2, but told France Info radio that no one was injured.



The men, who shot and killed 10 members of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s staff and two policemen in an attack on Wednesday, hijacked a grey Peugeot 206 on Friday morning at the village of Montagny-Sainte-Félicité, having at some point abandoned the Renault Clio they were driving on Thursday.
“The car was taken at around 8.10am,” Jean-Paul Douet, the mayor of Montagny-Sainte-Félicité, told Le Parisien. “The village teacher arrived at her school to see a car being hijacked in front of her. She saw their weapons, and in particular their rocket-propelled grenade launcher.”
A resident of Dammartin, Grégory, told BFMTV by telephone that locals had been ordered to lock their doors. He said the company, which Le Figaro said was called Création Tendance Découverte and employs five people, was in a small building around 300 metres from his home.



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A police officer stands along a road near where the suspects are reportedly holding a hostage.
Photograph: Yoan Valat


“Everyone here is blocked in their homes,” he said. “There are four of five helicopters flying overhead and an extraordinary number of police and gendarmes.”
Tens of thousands of police, gendarmes and troops joined the hunt for the attackers on Thursday in a large, wooded area north-east of Paris.
Sniffer dogs, heat-seeking cameras and helicopters were deployed around the towns of Longpont, Crépy and Villers-Cotterêt in the Aisne département off the RN2 motorway and close to a petrol station the brothers allegedly robbed on Thursday morning.



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Armed security patrols around the Eiffel Tower on Friday.
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