Watch dramatic moment Paris siege ended
This dramatic video is believed to show the moments before security services shot dead terrorist Amedy Coulibaly outside a grocery store in Paris.
The footage above – broadcast on France TV – appears to show the moment Coulibaly runs out of the kosher store firing and is taken down by a volley of bullets shot by French police. Flashes of light accompanied the rapid gunfire in dramatic scenes which last for about 10 seconds.
Minutes before the explosions, balaclava-clad officers were seen moving towards the building. There were 19 people inside the store when Coulibaly entered.
He killed four people immediately while the others are said to have sought safety in a cold store room in the basement, huddled together as they endured sub zero temperatures.
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Police were able to hear what was happening inside through a telephone left off the hook and seized upon the moment the terrorist knelt down for evening prayers to storm the building in a volley of rapid fire and smoke.
They killed him as he attempted to flee, and the 15 hostages dashed out to freedom.
In what would become one of the most poignant images of the three-day massacre, grief-stricken hostages, including children, were seen huddled together and being led quickly to safety as members of the public and media were urged to move back. Another was carried in a fireman’s lift following the four-and-a-half-hour ordeal.
The worst terrorist violence France has seen in decades killed at least 20 people, including the three gunmen. A fourth suspect – the common law wife of the market attacker Hayat Boumeddienne – the girlfriend of one of the gunmen – was still at large.
Several people, including police officers, remain in hospital following the shootings across the French capital and its surroundings, at the hands of the Kouachis, Coulibaly and any associates.