The chief rabbi's son, shop worker saving for his marriage, teacher and pensioner: Faces of kosher deli hostages killed by Jew-hating jihadist - one of whom was executed when he grabbed one of terrorist's guns and it JAMMED
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- Pictures of kosher deli hostages Yohan Cohen, 22, Yoav Hattab, 21, and Philippe Braham have been revealed
- Francois-Michel Saada, thought to be in his sixties, was also murdered in attack by terrorist Amedy Coulibaly
- One hostage was executed when he grabbed one of Jew-hating terrorist's guns and it jammed
- Dramatic account revealed by a survivor reveals that Coulibaly then shot and killed the customer in cold blood
- Survivor - known only as Mickael B, was trapped inside the Jewish supermarket with his three-year-old son
- Hostage taker Coulibaly, 32, was responsible for shooting dead a policewoman on Thursday
- Series of explosions rocked the building as armed police launched their raid which freed 15 hostages
- Siege came two days after Cherif and Said Kouachi massacred 12 people at Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris
- 500 phone calls were made between Coulibaly's wife Hayat Boumeddiene and one of the Kouachi brothers's wives
- But France's most wanted woman Boumeddiene has fled to Syria, taking a flight from Madrid to Istanbul
- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
The
son of a chief Rabbi, a teacher, a pensioner and a shop worker saving
for his marriage have been revealed as the kosher deli hostages killed
by Jew-hating jihadist - one of whom was executed when he grabbed one of
terrorist's guns.
Yohan
Cohen, 22, Yoav Hattab, 21 and Philippe Braham, in his forties, have
been pictured 24 hours after the siege came to a climax as armed police
raided the Jewish grocery in Paris.
Another
hostage, François-Michel Saada, thought to be in his sixties, was also
murdered in the attack by Islamic terrorist Amedy Coulibaly, French
Jewish organisation Crif confirmed.
It
has emerged that Mr Cohen, 22, from Sarcelles in the northern suburbs
of Paris, had been working at Hyper Cacher for a year to pay for his
future wedding to girlfriend Sharon Seb.
She
posted on Facebook saying: 'Je suis Yohan.' And later, in an emotional
tribute to her boyfriend, she wrote: 'What am I going to do without you?
How am I going to live without you? Why you?
'My life is ruined without you. I will never achieve anything now. I need you in my life. We had so many plans.
The first
pictures of two of the hostages - Yohan Cohen (left), 22, Yoav Hattab
(right), 21 - killed in yesterday's supermarket siege in Paris have
emerged
The family
of Mr Cohen (right) were said to be 'absolutely devastated' and it has
been revealed that Mr Hattab (left), is son of the Grand Rabbi of Tunis
Both Mr
Hattab (left) and Philippe Braham (right) were murdered by Islamic
terrorist Amedy Coulibaly at the kosher bakery in Paris
This is the moment a man sprinted
towards armed police as an officer aimed a hand gun at him amid a blaze
of gunfire at the kosher supermarket
Commandos launched flash grenades into the grocery and fired into the store before hostage taker Amedy Coulibaly was gunned down
'I
will never forget all our time together. You will remain the man of my
life for eternity. I will remain faithful to you until my dying breath. I
love you with an indescribable passion.'
Mr Cohen's aunt, Aurelie Pluvinage, uploaded a hand-drawn sketch of her nephew to her own Facebook page.
The deputy mayor of Sarcelles, Francois Pupponi, said: 'His family are devastated. He was a very nice boy.'
Philippe
Braham was a teacher in his early 40s, who lived with his wife Valerie
and their three children in a quiet town called L'Hay-les-Roses,
approximately eight miles south of Paris.
A
neighbour described him as 'a good man' and added: 'He always said
hello, he was always very polite. They are a very nice and quiet family.
He didn't speak a lot, but he was a good man.
'This
is very sad news. It is a sad day for the family and for everyone.' It
is believed Braham has another elder child from a previous
relationship.
The
dramatic account was revealed by a survivor who fled the shoot-out as
armed police officers and soldiers raided the store yesterday.
Mickael
B, as he wishes to be known, was held in the store with his
three-year-old son when the fellow hostage suddenly grabbed the weapon
which had been left on the counter and tried to fire it at terrorist
Amedy Coulibaly.
But,
after discovering the gun had been left there because it was
malfunctioning, the extremist shot and killed the heroic hostage.
Giving
a terrifying account, Mickael said: 'I was heading for the check-out
with the goods in my hand when I heard a bang – very loud. I thought it
was a firecracker at first. But turning I saw a black man armed with two
Kalashnikov rifles and I knew what was happening.'
'I
grabbed my son by the collar and fled to the back of the store. There,
with other customers, we ran down a spiral staircase into the basement.
We all piled into one of two cold rooms – our door wouldn't close. We
were terrified.
Moments after police had stormed the grocery, terrified captives ran from the supermarket flanked by French commandos
Images have emerged of Amedy
Coulibaly's bloodied body lying on a pavement surroudnded by forenzic
officers after the siege had come to a dramatic end
A couple embrace beside a sea of flowers near the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris
More than 10 bullet holes are clearly
visible in the window of the HyperCacher supermarket in Porte de
Vincennes in eastern Paris
'Five
minutes later a store employee was sent down by the killer. She said he
said we were to go back up otherwise there'd be carnage. I refused to
go up.
'By
now my son, understanding nothing, was panicking. Then minutes later
the employee comes back down with the same message. This time I decided
to follow her up the spiral staircase.
'At
the top a man was dying in a pool of his own blood. The terrorist
introduced himself to us. He was strangely calm. 'I am Amedi Coulibaly,
Malian and Muslim. I belong to the Islamic State,' he told us.'
'Then
he told us to put our phones on the ground. He walked around the store,
armed, totally justifying himself, speaking of Palestine, French
prisons, his brothers in Syria and many other things.
'Suddenly
one of the customers tried to grab one of his guns which he'd left on
the counter. It wasn't working. The terrorist had put it there because
it had blocked after the first shots,' Mickael told Le Point.
'He turned and shot at the customer who died on the spot.'
Emotional scenes outside the kosher HyperCacher in eastern Paris, as people arrive to lay floral tributes to the dead
Tributes: Flowers were this morning left tied to police fences erected outside the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris
Mickael
added: 'He then demanded that I call the media, which I did. From then
on the phone in the store never stopped ringing. It was mainly
journalists. I told them now was not the time. My son started to cry he
wanted to go home. He said the terrorist was a bad man.
'I managed to get my phone out discreetly and got in touch with the police outside while the terrorist was roaming the aisles.
'A policeman told me that we should be ready to throw ourselves flat on the ground when the assault came, which would be soon.
'It
was obvious that the terrorist was preparing to die. He said it was his
reward. He had a weapon in each hand and boxes of cartridges nearby. He
suddenly began to pray.
'My
mobile was still on. The police had heard it all. Minutes later the
shop grille was lifted. We knew it was the start of the assault.
'We flung ourselves to the ground. The noise was deafening. He was dead. It was over.'
Sarcelles,
the Parisian suburb Mr Cohen lived in, was in mourning this evening,
with the town's deputy mayor Francois Pupponi saying his family were
'devastated'.
Mr
Pupponi added: 'He was a nice boy – I knew him and his friends by
sight. This tragedy affects all of the city and the Jewish community.'
The family are expected to receive the 22-year-old's body tomorrow or Monday.
Meanwhile
dramatic footage has emerged of the moment police stormed in to the
Paris kosher supermarket last night before terrorist Amedy Coulibaly was
shot dead.
Commandos
launched flash grenades into the grocery and fired into the shop before
a man believed to be the hostage taker was gunned down. Moments later,
terrified captives could be seen running to safety.
It comes as it was revealed that the Isis fanatic had slaughtered four hostages before officers launched the raid.
Last
night, chilling images emerged of bodies lying on the floor of the
bullet-ridden shop after several shoppers were taken hostage inside the
grocery store - including women and children. Further images emerged of
Coulibaly's bloodied body lying on a pavement after the siege had come
to a dramatic end.
It
has also been revealed there were 500 calls made between the phone
belonging to Coulibaly's wife Hayat Boumeddiene and a phone belonging to
one of the wives of the Kouachi brothers.
Boumeddiene, France's most wanted woman, is now in Syria after crossing the Turkish border earlier this month.
MUSLIM IN DELI SHEPHERDED HIS JEWISH CUSTOMERS TO SAFETY AND HAS BEEN HAILED A HERO
Lassana Bathily (pictured) put his own life at risk to protect people from Islamic fanatic Amedy Coulibaly
A
Muslim employee at the supermarket at the centre of the Paris terror
attacks has been hailed as a hero for saving the lives of Jewish
customers.
Lassana
Bathily put his own life at risk to protect people from Islamic fanatic
Amedy Coulibaly – by hiding them in a cold store in the basement of
Hyper Cacher.
Bathily came up with his quick-thinking plan when the gunman burst through the front doors on Friday.
The
24-year-old shop assistant, who comes from Mali in West Africa, found
six terrified customers a safe hiding place downstairs while the
terrorist prowled the aisles above them.
‘When they ran down, I opened the door [to the cold store],’ Mr Bathily revealed yesterday.
‘There were several people who came to me.
‘I turned off the light, I turned off the freezer.
‘When I turned off the cold, I put them [hostages] in, I closed the door, and I told them to try to stay calm.’
The
hostages had to spend three hours in the darkened room, with
temperatures still below freezing, until armed police stormed the deli
and Coulibaly went down in a hail of bullets.
When the hostages were eventually freed, they congratulated Mr Bathily.
There
are now calls for him to receive an honour from the French state, after
he was likened to Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who helped
about 1,200 Jews escape the Holocaust.
In
a further show of unity between faiths in France yesterday, senior
Muslims were cheered as they added flowers to a pile of floral tributes
at the site of the Hyper Cacher massacre.
They
were led by Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam of the city’s Drancy mosque,
and they were accompanied by a local rabbi and a woman wearing a sash in
the French national colours of red, white and blue.
Their gesture of solidarity as they arrived was met with cries of ‘Bravo’ from the watching crowd.
Mr Chalghoumi made a similar tribute on Thursday at the site of the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
On
that occasion he described the terrorists responsible for the atrocity
as ‘criminals’ and ‘barbarians’ who had nothing to do with Islam.
As
the group left yesterday, the crowd, which included Jews, Muslims and
Christians, began to chant ‘tous ensemble’, meaning ‘everyone together’.
A distraught woman takes a moment to
lay a bouquet of flowers outside the supermarket in Porte de Vincennes,
less than 24 hours after commandos raided it to rescue hostages
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