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 Kouachi brothers not be harmed. The siege ended when police stormed the supermarket, killing Coulibaly. The attack and hostage crisis occurred in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting two days earlier, and concurrently with the Dammartin-en-Goële hostage crisis in which the two Charlie Hebdo gunmen were cornered.
| Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege | |
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| Part of the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks | |
Flowers and a French flag outside the Hypercacher kosher supermarket | |
| Location | Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48.846963°N 2.415386°E |
| Date | 9 January 2015 13:00 CET – 17:30 CET (UTC+01:00) |
| Target | Jewish supermarket patrons |
Attack type | Hostage taking, terrorism, mass murder, shooting |
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| Deaths | 5 (four hostages and the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 9 (six hostages, two police officers, one RAID member, one BRI member) |
| Perpetrators | Amedy Coulibaly |
| Motive | Islamic terrorism |
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On 16 December 2020, 14 accomplices to both the Jewish supermarket attack and the Charlie Hebdo shooting, including Coulibaly's former partner Hayat Boumeddiene, were convicted. At that time, three of the accomplices, including Bouddiene, had not been captured and were tried in absentia.