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Added on the 16/10/2020 20:21:59 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Police officers cordon off a street in the Jardin d'Eole area in the north of Paris, a focal point for crack cocaine users and dealers, after users were evacuated earlier in the morning. IMAGES
Emmanuel Macron arrives shortly after 9pm at the Bois d'Aulne secondary school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), where a history teacher, later beheaded in the street by an Islamist assailant, was teaching in the afternoon. IMAGES
Police secure the area surrounding the site of a hostage situation, blocking access to the Aligre road after arresting a knife-wielding man who had taken two woman hostage in a shop in the 12th arrondissement in Paris. Following long negotiations led by the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) the man released the mother unharmed, shortly before 10 pm before being arrested the following morning after releasing the second hostage after 8 am, unharmed. IMAGES
Thousands of people gather in central Paris to pay homage to the teacher decapitated two days before for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils. IMAGES
Scene outside French school day after teacher decapitated for showing Mohammed cartoons by Charlie Hebdo. IMAGES