Various Sources: Heavy Gunfire in the North of Paris (Saint Denis)

[StrayKat]

Last edited Wed Nov 18, 2015, 03:26 AM - Edit history (6)

CNN just reported it and played some video.

RT tweeted (video):
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/666827363225833472

The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/18/paris-attacks-police-hunt-ninth-suspect-as-germany-on-alert-after-hanover-bomb-threat-live?CMP=share_btn_tw

Daily Mirror: https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/666835541887963137

LeParisien (video): http://www.leparisien.fr/une/intervention-du-raid-dans-la-nuit-a-saint-denis-de-nombreux-coups-de-feu-18-11-2015-5287649.php#xtref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com



Update: Reports now indicate that this operation is in relation to the hunt for the 9th suspect and there may be several people barricaded. At least 1 police officer injured. Le Monde is reporting at least 2 dead, possibly a third.

Update 2: Abdelhamid Abaaoud (supposed mastermind) is target of Saint-Denis raid. (CNN, Washington Times) Abaaoud's presence now confirmed.

Update 3: Reports are now of 3 dead, 2 arrested. One of the dead was a female suicide bomber who detonated her vest during the operation. One suspect still believed to be holed up. One civilian fell victim to the operation.

Update 4: French are reporting that the operation is completed.

[MADem]

1. Are they catching Number 9? I hope it is that, and not new

attacks.

[StrayKat]

2. Possibly.

Possibly, even probably. I don't think it's clear yet what is going down, but I believe they are reporting that police have been injured in this raid.

https://twitter.com/JJBourdin_RMC/status/666834243851583488?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

[840high]

3. I hope so, too.

[Yorktown]

4. Apparently, it's 9 barricaded with accomplices

(hence the heavy gunfire)

[StrayKat]

6. They're now saying there are multiple persons barricaded.

https://twitter.com/djamel_mazi/status/666845764090511361/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

2 à 3 hommes retranchés dans appartement. Pause dans les tirs, hélico éclaire toits d'immeuble à saint Denis

[Yorktown]

7. Exactly

[StrayKat]

9. This reminds me of the search for the Boston Marathon bomber. n/t

[Yorktown]

10. No, there's a big difference: local support

The greater St Denis area is a maze of no-go zones were lawlessness induced by drug traffickers, unemployment and propaganda have created a significant support for literalist, sometimes radical, Islam.

I do not think the Djarnaev brothers enjoyed the same amount of support in the Boston area.

[StrayKat]

11. Are you in the area? Or familiar with it?

[Yorktown]

14. I know greater Paris rather well.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. "No go zones"

[Yorktown]

16. That's what French police call those 700 areas

Rank and file police

The official acronym is ZUS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_urban_zone

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. I'm sorry, I don't have discussions with people who spout ridiculous conservative nonsense

Have a nice time here.

[Yorktown]

19. Tell that to the French Prime Minister and TV channels. M6 channel using the word no-go here

[StrayKat]

5. More footage

[Ace Rothstein]

8. Is that a bullet whistling by at 22 seconds?

[StrayKat]

12. There is a whistle. I don't know how close. n/t

[StrayKat]

15. Twitter

Tweets are pointing to Le Monde as the source of a report that two are dead. I am unable to verify that that is what Le Monde is reporting though.

https://twitter.com/WorldNews_24h/status/666853721008115712

[Yorktown]

20. You are right, Le Monde mentions at least two dead (3rd unconfirmed)

Un assaut policier en cours à Saint-Denis dans le cadre de l'enquête sur les attentats LIVE
Une opération policière est toujours en cours. Il y « aurait deux mort et un troisième à confirmer » parmi les personnes visées par les policiers du RAID, indique une source policière au « Monde ».

En savoir plus sur http://www.lemonde.fr/#mJIsIYI7iswuUL4P.99

[StrayKat]

21. Thanks.

This information is coming in in dribs and drabs.

[Warpy]

32. BBC reports one woman blew herself up

Roads are blocked, soldiers and police on the scene. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34853657

I hope they get the lot of them, enough of them alive so they can be interviewed at length, maybe lines of supply for guns and explosives turned up.

[StrayKat]

22. Abdelhamid Abaaoud (supposed mastermind behind plot) pinned in Saint Denis.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud (supposed mastermind behind plot) pinned inside according to CNN and other sources.

(He was formerly reported as having returned to Syria.)

[StrayKat]

23. New explosions happening right now in Paris.

Journalists were moved down the street and then several explosions were heard in succession on camera.

[StrayKat]

24. Female suicide bomber may have activated her vest during raid.

Unconfirmed reports coming in that a female suicide bomber detonated her vest during operation.

[Turborama]

25. At least seven explosions have been heard at the scene

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/18/paris-attacks-police-hunt-ninth-suspect-as-germany-on-alert-after-hanover-bomb-threat-live#block-564c1e36e4b0e0595dc6c826

[StrayKat]

26. Thanks.

Thanks. I wonder if they were flash-bangs as they went in to clean out the hole.

[Yorktown]

27. No idea why the SWAT teams don't use some kind of incapacitating gas

I mean, it would be better to try to catch them alive than let them die in Alamo 'glory'..

[StrayKat]

29. I think there are reports of 3 dead, 2 arrests.

So, they may have taken some alive.

Correction: 2 arrested per RT.
https://www.rt.com/news/322507-gunfire-paris-night-police/

One still hole up per BNO News
http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/tags/tag/id/1039/

[Blue_In_AK]

28. I was just reading on MSN

that Mr. Abaaoud's family was thrilled when they mistakenly heard he had been killed in Syria last year. He is apparently a serious disappointment to his parents. And I have to agree - I'm glad he's not my kid.

[StrayKat]

30. I can't imagine how it would feel to be a parent that produced such a child. n/t

[StrayKat]

31. Per CNN one civilian died in operation.

CNN just said one civilian outside fell victim to the operation.