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Photos From Friday’s Hostage Situation in Paris 

Standoff outside a kosher supermarket and a printing plant where the Charlie Hebdo suspects and others took people hostage. 

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Police forces gather together at Porte de Vincennes after a gunman opened fire at a kosher grocery store on Jan. 9, 2015 and took people hostage.

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A French Army helicopter with intervention forces hovers near the scene of a hostage taking in Dammartin-en-Goële, northeast of Paris on Jan. 9, 2015.

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A police officer takes up a position at Porte de Vincennes in Paris on Jan. 9, 2015, after a gunman opened fire at a kosher grocery store and took at least five people hostage.

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French special forces handle arms as they take position on a rooftop of the complex at the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goële on Jan. 9, 2015.

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Laurent Joffrin, editor in chief of French newspaper Liberation, speaks to the press upon arrival to attend a meeting gathering editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo and Liberation, on Jan. 9, 2015.

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A French policeman stands in front of the entrance of Paris Mosque as French Muslims gather for Friday on Jan. 9, 2015.

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French President Francois Hollande (center) arrives with Prime Minister Manuel Valls to hold a crisis meeting with French prefects at the Interior Ministry on Jan. 9, 2015.

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French police stop young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket near Porte de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015.

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Members of the French police forces taking position by the kosher grocery store in Saint-Mande, near Porte de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015.

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Police officers near a kosher deli where hostage standoff took place on Jan. 9, 2015.

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People are led away from the scene of the hostage situation at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015.

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Members of the French police special forces launch the assault and evacuate the hostages at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015

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French emergency doctors evacuate hostages injured at the attack that took place at Port de Vincennes, Jan. 9, 2015.

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Bystanders watch the hostage situation at Port de Vincennes unfold, Jan. 9, 2015.

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Police officer at the scene of the hostage situation at Port de Vincennes, Jan. 9, 2015.

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