--- description: French police were negotiating with two sets of gunmen Friday, as the suspects behind the attack on Charlie Hebdo were surrounded in a factory northeast of Paris with at least one hostage, and another gunman linked to them took captives in a kosher grocery store title: Witness Scenes From the Paris Hostage Standoff image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc432aa394875bd/698779045f570f4dcbb14970/paris-hostage-situation-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Witness Scenes From the Paris Hostage Standoff by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 9, 2015 4:11 PM CUT  Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris.Dan Kitwood—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 9, 2015 4:11 PM CUT  Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  French police special forces evacuate local residents on Jan. 9, 2015 in Saint-Mande, near Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris. Martin Bureau—AFP/Getty Images  People are led away from the scene as Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  Police are mobilized with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  A screengrab taken from an AFP TV video shows a general view of members of the French police special forces launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris, on Jan. 9, 2015. Gabrielle Chatelain—AFP/Getty Images  The moment when members of the French anti-terror forces RAID storm the kosher store where Amedy Coulibaly, an islamist gunman holds hostages, on Cours de Vincennes in Paris, on Jan. 9, 2015. Nicolas Gouhier—ABACA ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3661290/charlie-hebdo-paris-hostages/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3661290/charlie-hebdo-paris-hostages/"},"headline":"Witness Scenes From the Paris Hostage Standoff","datePublished":"2015-01-09T16:11:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:06:19.702Z","description":"French police were negotiating with two sets of gunmen Friday, as the suspects behind the attack on Charlie Hebdo were surrounded in a factory northeast of Paris with at least one hostage, and another gunman linked to them took captives in a kosher grocery store","url":"https://time.com/3661290/charlie-hebdo-paris-hostages/","keywords":["France","photography"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc432aa394875bd/698779045f570f4dcbb14970/paris-hostage-situation-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc432aa394875bd/698779045f570f4dcbb14970/paris-hostage-situation-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Paris Hostage Situation","caption":"Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris.","creditText":"Dan Kitwood—Getty Images","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/3661290/charlie-hebdo-paris-hostages/","name":"Witness Scenes From the Paris Hostage Standoff"}}]}] ```