FRANCE: Police foil schoolboy's killing spree
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Police in the French town of Beauvais foiled a 13-year-old French student's plan to kill teachers and himself in a shooting spree. The schoolboy's parents warned the police after discovering the plot on his blog.
Source: France 24
FRANCE: Youth claims riot police acted with deliberate racist violence
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A French student of Moroccan descent has claimed police reacting to celebrations in Paris following Algeria's qualification in the World Cup were deliberately and overtly racist.
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Police: Hostage-taker at Paris market is suspect in slaying of policewoman a day earlier
French police were confronted with two hostage standoffs Friday as two suspects in the terror attack on a satirical newspaper were cornered in a small industrial town northeast of Paris Friday and a third gunman was holding as many as five people at gunpoint at a kosher supermarket 35 miles to the south. Ref. USAToday
France is under siege. Although the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo Magazine may not be related to the death of the policewoman it makes you wonder if it wasn't co-ordinated in some way. This is the latest:
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While some hostages were freed alive, four hostages and a gunman were killed in the Paris kosher store, AFP and Reuters report. Ref. USAToday
French law enforcement officers have been told to erase their presence on social media and to carry their weapons at all times because terror sleeper cells have been activated over the last 24 hours in the country, a French police source who attended a briefing today told CNN Terror Analyst Samuel Laurent. Ref. CNN