--- title: Hostages Sue French Media Over Kosher Supermarket Coverage description: They say broadcasts of the details endangered their lives canonical: https://time.com/3770440/hypercacher-hostages-sue-media/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-03T14:05:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:41:05.938Z article:section: World og:title: Hostages Sue French Media Over Kosher Supermarket Coverage og:description: They say broadcasts of the details endangered their lives og:url: https://time.com/3770440/hypercacher-hostages-sue-media/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94ed2150c1241c4/6987868d8e060182b145b187/hypercacer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: A sign reading "I am Hypercacher, I am Charlie and I am police officer, we must resist" is placed among flowers outside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket near Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hostages Sue French Media Over Kosher Supermarket Coverage twitter:description: They say broadcasts of the details endangered their lives twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94ed2150c1241c4/6987868d8e060182b145b187/hypercacer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hostages Sue French Media Over Kosher Supermarket Coverage by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Apr 3, 2015 2:05 PM CUT  A sign reading "I am Hypercacher, I am Charlie and I am police officer, we must resist" is placed among flowers outside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket near Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris, on Jan. 10, 2015. A sign reading "I am Hypercacher, I am Charlie and I am police officer, we must resist" is placed among flowers outside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket near Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris, on Jan. 10, 2015.Yves Herman—Reuters by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Apr 3, 2015 2:05 PM CUT Six people who were held hostage in a Paris supermarket and their families have [filed a lawsuit against French media outlets, ](http://news.yahoo.com/hostages-families-sue-tv-over-paris-terror-attack-093329702.html "undefined")arguing that the live coverage revealed information that endangered their lives. The station BFM and other networks revealed on air that [an employee](http://time.com/3662696/muslim-man-hero-kosher-grocery-store-attack-charlie-hebdo-france/ "undefined") had hidden several people in the basement of the kosher market, Hypercacher, when the attack began, the AP reports. The suit says that if the gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, had heard the reports, the hostages would have been in even graver danger. BFM did not immediately comment, according to the AP. The Jan. 9 attack came just two days after terrorists opened fire on the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing 12\. An additional four people were killed in the supermarket attack. \[[_AP_](http://news.yahoo.com/hostages-families-sue-tv-over-paris-terror-attack-093329702.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3770440/hypercacher-hostages-sue-media/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3770440/hypercacher-hostages-sue-media/"},"headline":"Hostages Sue French Media Over Kosher Supermarket Coverage","datePublished":"2015-04-03T14:05:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:41:05.938Z","description":"They say broadcasts of the details endangered their lives","url":"https://time.com/3770440/hypercacher-hostages-sue-media/","keywords":["France","Attack","paris","hostage","Charlie Hebdo"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94ed2150c1241c4/6987868d8e060182b145b187/hypercacer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94ed2150c1241c4/6987868d8e060182b145b187/hypercacer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A sign reading \"I am Hypercacher, I am Charlie and I am police officer, we must resist\" is placed among flowers outside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket near Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris","caption":"A sign reading \"I am Hypercacher, I am Charlie and I am police officer, we must resist\" is placed among flowers outside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket near Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris","creditText":"Yves Herman—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3770440/hypercacher-hostages-sue-media/","name":"Hostages Sue French Media Over Kosher Supermarket Coverage"}}]}] ```