Invited in Touche Pas à Mon Poste this Friday, January 7, a former GIGN agent unveiled an error that could have taken place during the arrest of the Kouachi brothers in 2015.
The year 2015 was particularly murderous for France. Ten months before the attacks of November 13, these are the premises of the satirical magazine Charlie hebdo who were targeted. On the morning of January 7, 2015, two men heavily armed and hooded enter and slaughter eleven people in just a few minutes. Among their victims, we find famous cartoonists of the media such as Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, but also the police officer Ahmed Merabet, shot at close range. The attackers are called Saïd and Chérif Kouachi. They flee by claiming responsibility for their crime. The police find them in a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goële after 48 hours on the run. However, they will not emerge alive from their clash with the GIGN.
But according to Romain Agure, guest in Do not touch My TV this Friday, January 7, an error could have been made shortly before the facts. He was a member of the GIGN assault column against the Kouachi brothers. The authorities could have turned to other individuals, perhaps allowing the perpetrators to Charlie Hebdo attack to get away. “There is a vehicle that was same model and same color than the reported vehicle, individuals arriving at the end of the street “, said this former agent and father of two children. “Little emotional lift”, he recalled. Because he and his colleagues were in a hurry: to put an end to the two attackers. They quickly realize the misunderstanding that awaited them. “It was, I think, someone coming out of work.“
A sober tribute to Charlie Hebdo
Seven years after the tragedy, the French have not forgotten. The proof, the tributes multiplied within the political class this Friday, January 7, 2022. The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo paid tribute to the victims of the jihadist attacks by Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher magazine, where Amedy Coulibaly had entered on January 9, 2015, killing three customers and one employee. The mayor and the tenant of Beauvau went to 10, rue Nicolas-Appert, where the former premises of the weekly were located, before praying a few meters further, where Ahmed Merabet was killed. Then direction Porte de Vincennes, in front of the Kosher supermarket. No speaking took place, in accordance with the wishes of the families of the victims.
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On the morning of January 7, 2015, two heavily armed and hooded men entered and killed eleven people in a handful of minutes.
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Among their victims, we find famous cartoonists of the media such as Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, but also the police officer Ahmed Merabet, shot at point blank range.
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The attackers are called Saïd and Chérif Kouachi. They flee by claiming responsibility for their crime.
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The police find them in a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goële after 48 hours on the run.
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However, they will not emerge alive from their clash with the GIGN.
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But according to Romain Agure, invited in Touche Pas at Mon Poste this Friday, January 7, an error could have been made shortly before the facts.
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He was a member of the GIGN assault column against the Kouachi brothers.
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The authorities could have turned to other individuals, perhaps allowing the fugitives to escape.
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“There is a vehicle that was the same model and the same color as the vehicle reported, individuals who show up at the end of the street,” said the former agent and father of two.
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The agents were in a hurry: to finish off the two attackers. They quickly realize the misunderstanding that awaited them. “It was, I think, someone coming out of work.”