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Pictured:
French media identified this woman as Clarissa Jean-Philippe, the young
policewoman who was gunned down as she attended a routine traffic accident in
Montrouge at 8am yesterday
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It's feared the gunman responsible for killing a policewoman
in Paris yesterday has wounded one and taken at least five others hostage in a
new shooting in eastern Paris.
It is the third shooting in three days to rock the city after
it began with the massacre of 12 at a magazine office on Wednesday.
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Footage
from a local broadcaster shows a team of heavily armed police officers swarming
into the area. It has been reported more than one person has been taken hostage
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The
gunman has just wounded one and 'at least five' hostages at a kosher grocery in
eastern Paris' Port de Vincennes, it was reported.
Killing of policewoman
in Paris linked to Charlie Hebdo attack – reports
The Charlie Hebdo massacre on Wednesday and the shooting of a
police woman in Paris on Thursday are linked, a police source reportedly told
AFP. It is alleged that all the attackers were members of the same terror cell.
On Thursday, the French Interior Ministry said that the man
who killed the policewoman, 26, near La porte de Chatillon, Montrouge commune,
south of Paris, didn’t have any ties with the Kouachi brothers according to
their data.
However, on Friday police sources told AFP that it turned out
that the shooter knew the brothers.
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Members of the French national police intervention group
(BRI) arrive at the scene where a female police officer was shot dead in Montrouge,
a southern suburb of Paris on January 8, 2015.(AFP Photo / Kenzo Tribouillard)
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Le Point magazine said the Montrouge shooter and Charlie
Hebdo attackers were members of the Buttes-Chaumont cell, which is linked to
Al-Qaeda.
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Police investigators work at the scene of a shooting in the
street of Montrouge near Paris January 8, 2015.( Reuters / Charles Platiau)
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The Kouachi brothers are suspected of being behind the attack
on Charlie Hebdo magazine HQ, which killed 12 people including the magazine's
top editor, prominent cartoonists, and two policemen.
Charlie Hebdo has been a source of controversy in the past and has received
numerous threats for satirizing the Prophet Mohammed and other prominent Muslim
figures.
France has launched a
large-scale manhunt for the suspected shooters. On Friday, police reportedly
closed in on the suspects, who are said to have taken one or several hostages
near the Dammartin-en-Goele commune in northeastern France, 50 kilometers from
Paris.
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