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Four Jewish Hostages Killed in Paris Grocery Store Attack

(USA Today) Yamiche Alcindor and Elena Berton - Gunman Amedy Coulibaly, 32, killed four people at a Jewish supermarket on Friday before taking hostages inside. Police later stormed the store, rescuing 15 hostages and killing Coulibaly. The victims of the attack were identified as Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen and Francois-Michel Saada. "These French citizens were struck down in a cold-blooded manner and mercilessly because they were Jews," the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, CRIF, said in a statement. In an address to the nation Friday evening, French President Francois Hollande said the deadly attack on the market was unquestionably "an anti-Semitic attack."
2015-01-12 00:00:00
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