Two brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo newspaper attack were cornered inside a printing house northeast of Paris on Friday, taking a hostage and telling police they "want to die as martyrs," a lawmaker said.
Meanwhile, a gunman, who police believe is linked to the newsroom massacre, has also taken hostages at a kosher market in eastern Paris. He is also suspect in the killing Thursday of a policewoman.
Security forces streamed into the small industrial town near Charles de Gaulle airport in a massive operation to seize the two men at the printing house suspected of carrying out France's deadliest terror attack in decades. One of the men had been convicted of terrorism charges in 2008, the other had visited Yemen and a U.S. official said both brothers were on the American no-fly list.
Authorities evacuated a nearby school around midday Friday after the suspects agreed by phone to allow the children safe passage, Dammartin-en-Goele spokeswoman Audrey Taupenas told The Associated Press.
"They said they want to die as martyrs," Yves Albarello, a local lawmaker who said he was inside the command post, told French television station i-Tele.
The men, Cherif and Said Kouachi, are believed to be the masked assailants who methodically opened fire on an editorial meeting of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, leaving 12 people dead in central Paris on Wednesday.
As at least three helicopters hovered, Charles de Gaulle closed two runways to arrivals to avoid interfering in the standoff, an airport spokesman said. The town appealed to residents to stay inside.
A military helicopter flies over Dammartin-en-Goele on Friday as security forces moved in to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects wanted for the deadly attack on a satirical newspaper. (Thibault Camus/Associated Press)
The siege in Dammartin-en-Goele unfolded after the suspects hijacked a car early Friday in a nearby town.
Tens of thousands of French security forces have mobilized to prevent a new terror attack since the Wednesday assault on Charlie Hebdo, which decimated the editorial staff, including the chief editor who had been under armed guard after receiving death threats for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. He and his police bodyguard were the first to die, witnesses have said.
Cherif and Said Kouachi were named as the chief suspects after Said's identity card was left behind in their abandoned getaway car. They were holed up Friday inside CTF Creation Tendance Decouverte, a printing house. Xavier Castaing, the chief Paris police spokesman, and Taupenas. They said there appeared to be one hostage.
This photo provided by The Paris Police Prefectureon Thursday shows the suspects Cherif Kouachi, left, and his brother Said. (Prefecture de Police de Paris/The Associated Press)
Christelle Alleume, who works across the street, said a round of gunfire interrupted her coffee break Friday morning.
"We heard shots and we returned very fast because everyone was afraid," she told i-Tele. "We had orders to turn off the lights and not approach the windows."
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said both suspects had been known to intelligence services before the attack.
Also Friday, police said the gunman who took hostages at the kosher market in eastern Paris, near Porte de Vincennes metro station said the man opened fire in the market and declared "you know who I am."
One person was seriously wounded in the hostage-taking incident, a police union source told Reuters. The interior ministry denied press reports that two people had been killed. Police sources said one person was injured after being shot.
The gunman is also reported to be the same person who shot and killed a female police officer on Thursday. Police SWAT personnel are on the scene.
Paris police released a photo of Amedy Coulibaly as a suspect in the killing Thursday of a policewoman, and the official named him as the man holed up in the market. He said a second suspect, a woman named Hayet Boumddiene, is the gunman's accomplice.
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